The release date for the English version of 'Song for a Whale' by
Lynne Kelly is Feb 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Inspired by contemporary classics such as Fish in a Tree and Counting by 7s, this book, which won the Schneider Family Book Award, tells the tale of a deaf girl who befriends a whale whose species is unable to hear his song and the adventure she goes on to save him. Iris is twelve years old and a tech prodigy who can fix anything from antique radios to the class computer. However, since she is the only deaf student in her school, she is frequently made fun of for being unintelligent. It can be quite difficult to feel as though no one is listening to you, as you may have experienced.