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Gr 2–4-Creative liberties are taken to tell an engaging, if a bit morbid, story of the life, death, fossilization, and discovery of a historically and scientifically significant beluga whale fossil. In 1849, workers building a railroad in Charlotte, VT, uncovered the skeleton of the small whale more than 150 miles away from the Atlantic Ocean, but this book's lyrical and often alliterative narrative begins 12,000 years before that discovery, when the valley was covered by a salty inland sea. Charlotte (...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Poetic text describes an Ice Age beluga whale's life with her pod and her (somewhat jarring) death; Charlotte's fossilized bones are discovered 11,5...Log In or Sign Up to Read More