A Whale of a Tale [Paperback]

In this sparkling Mermaid Tales adventure, can Kiki overcome her fears and enjoy her first-ever trip to the ocean’s surface?

The third graders at Trident Academy are traveling to the surface of the ocean for the first time ever for a “hugely” exciting activity: They’re going to visit a pod of humpback whales! But Kiki is less than thrilled. In fact, she’s scared from the top of her head to the tip of her tail. After all, the enormous creatures could swallow her (and maybe her entire class) in one giant gulp! Kiki’s pals Shelly and Echo try to help shrink her fears, and when a new friend comes along—a very big, whale-size friend—Kiki’s courage emerges, and the fun looms large.

Ocean Trip

ROCKY RIDGE WASN’T HAPPY. “Do we have to do another project?” he whined to his teacher. “Mrs. Karp, that’s not fair!”

In the first few weeks of the new school year at Trident Academy, Mrs. Karp’s third-grade class had already completed reports on famous merpeople and a project where they’d collected krill and shrimp. Every one of the twenty students hoped they wouldn’t have to do another big assignment.

Mrs. Karp smiled. “This lesson is different. We’re going on an ocean trip.”

Rocky and the rest of the class cheered. “Yes! Awesome!”

Kiki Coral gasped. But her mergirl friends Echo Reef and Shelly Siren clapped their hands and swished their tails. For many in the class, this would be their first ocean trip. They would leave classwork behind to learn in a deep-sea environment. “It’s about time we did something fun,” a mergirl named Pearl Swamp snapped.

“Where are we going, Mrs. Karp?” Kiki asked.

“An article in theTrident City Tidereported that a pod of whales is expected to be directly above Trident City tomorrow morning. WelãÉ