Bookquarium

I love the ocean, as you all know, so this book was an especially compelling to read. Gosh, I really have to say how much I love this book cover too. It's visually stunning, and as usual, it gives insight into the contents of the book without spoiling. I talked about this book in one of my earlier posts, so forgive me for copying the synopsis again here. Why reinvent the wheel? " When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven-year-old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief — and guilt. It was a submarine of Fidelia’s invention that her parents were in when they died, and it was she who pressed them to stay out longer when the raging Undertow was looming. But Fidelia is forced out of her mourning when she’s kidnapped by Merrick the Monstrous, a pirate whose list of treasons stretches longer than a ribbon eel. Her task? Use her marine know-how to retrieve his treasure, lost on the ocean floor. But as Fidelia and the pira...