Snorkel Mccorkle And The Lost Flipper

Snorkel McCorkle is a 10-year-old eco-heroine and inventor determined to save the planet and all the creatures on it. She is bi-racial with a mass of unruly curls that are always tangled in her snorkel and mask. She's been wearing them and her flippers 24/7 since she learned that her Mom, a marine biologist, was lost at sea while measuring water quality off the Florida Keys three months ago. Snorkel is the only person who believes her Mom is still alive drifting in the ocean. Every night Snorkel charts how far her Mom has traveled that day on a map of ocean currents-up the Atlantic coast, to New Foundland, across the Atlantic, possibly past England and Scottland to Norway. By now she could be as far as the Canary Islands.When the school bullies tip her kayak, Snorkel engineers an outrigger for balance from old tent poles, duct tape and gallon milk jugs.Snorkel's best friends are Matilda the Manatee, who's missing a flipper but has a tracking device, and Figaro the opera-singing-pelican. When Snorkel's kayak is pulled out to sea by a storm, her friends Matilda and Figaro rush to her aid. In the turmoil of the trio's time in open water, Snorkel learns first hand the dangers facing the creatures of the sea-ghost nets, islands of plastic debris, seismic testing. She returns with a mission and enlists her classmates to petition city council to end single use plastic in their town.

• | Author: Linda Thornburg
• | Publisher: BELLES LETTRES, INC
• | Publication Date: 20-Sep-21
• | Number of Pages: 112 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0578717913
• | ISBN-13: 9780578717913