SuitabookDolphin song
Lauren St. John
- Reading
- Before reading, discuss what practical problems and relationship tensions might arise after a group is stranded. During reading, pause to consider how Martine’s choices affect both classmates and dolphins.
- Themes
- Survival and cooperation: Six children are stranded on a deserted island and must survive despite being at odds with one another. The book?s stance on this remains unclear.
- Care for animals: After dolphins save the children, dolphins mysteriously beach themselves, prompting the castaways to try to save them. The plot connects human survival with an urgent animal predicament, inviting attention to responsibility and interdependence without revealing the book’s wider viewpoint.
- Worth knowing
- The opening situation includes classmates thrown overboard into shark-infested waters, later isolation on a deserted island and dolphins mysteriously stranded on the shore. The intensity and detail of these scenes are unclear.