The Dolphins of Pern [Paperback]

Two boys, one of them a dragonrider, re-establish crucial contact with the wise dolphins, the legendary shipfish of Pern.Anne McCaffrey,one of the world’s most popular authors, is best known for her Dragonriders of Pern® series. She was the first woman to win the two top prizes for science fiction writing, the Hugo and Nebula awards. She was also given the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement in Young Adult Fiction, was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, and was named a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1926, McCaffrey relocated to Ireland in the 1970s, where she lived in a house of her own design, named Dragonhold-Underhill. She died in 2011.CHAPTER I
 
When Masterfisher Alemi came by Readis’s hold that morning, he found his fishing crony ready and waiting.
 
“I thought you’d never come, Uncle Alemi,” Readis said in a tone that was a thin line away from accusatory.
 
“He’s been on the porch,” Aramina told Alemi with a solemn, hiding-a-smile face, “for the last hour. He was up in dawn’s dark!” And she rolled her eyes at such eager anticipation.
 
“Uncle Alemi says the fish bite best at dawn,” Readis informed his mother condescendingly as he jumped down the three steps to take a firm hold of the callused hand of his courtesy uncle.
 
“I don’t know which excited him more: fishing with you, or being allowed to attend Swacky’s Gather this evening.” Then she waggled a finger at her small son. “Remember, you have to take a nap this afternoon.”
 
“I’m all ready to go fishing now,” Readis said, ignoring the threat. “I got my snack”—he brandished the net sack laden with his water bottle and wrapped sandwich—“and myl3+