Fishy Tail

In school this morning we finished a dolphin book, a true story about a diver who helped a baby dolphin who had caught a fishing hook near its dorsal fin. We should only have done two chapters, but we were all enjoying it so much that when I offered to read the next two chapters, the final ones, the boys jumped at the chance. Quite an amazing story, really, which in fact only took about ten minutes in real life but was definitely worthy of a book about it. After gaining the dolphin family’s trust, the diver helped the baby, removing the hook, and a few weeks later he saw the little dolphin with the scarred tail swimming in the ocean, so he was happy to know it had survived and no sharks had followed the trail of blood. Actually two sharks had tracked it down while the hook was being removed, but the mother and father were so aggressive in their defense that the sharks swam away bleeding.