02444cam a2200457 i 4500 1698706309 TxAuBib 20250104120000.0 231201s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781339012469 HRD 18.99 1339012464 HRD 18.99 9781546145899 paperback 1546145893 paperback (OCoLC)1411030986 TxAuBib rda Lucyk-berger, Chrystyna, author. Swimming with spies [BOOK] / Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger. First edition. New York : Scholastic Press, 2024. ©2024. 267 pages : map ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier cri rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "It's February of 2014 in the seaport city of Sevastopol in Crimea. Sofiya Oleksandrivna only wants two things: to figure out a way to get Ilya Ilyich to stop bullying her, and to convince her mother to come back home. But as battleships come to populate the waters around their city and Russian forces, including Ilya's father, start to make their presence known, an even greater threat takes over Sofiya's life. The only escape Sofiya has is the dolphinarium where her father is a trainer at the forefront of teaching sign language to a pod of dolphins. And now the Russian military has ordered the dolphinarium to hand over its animals for military use. As armed Russian troops invade Crimea and conflict and tension continue to rise, Sofiya will do everything she can to keep her pod safe. And what she knows better than any of the soldiers occupying her city, is that the most powerful force is communication.". Ages 8-12 Scholastic Press. Grades 3-7 Scholastic Press. 20250104. Families Juvenile fiction. Soldiers Juvenile fiction. Dolphins Juvenile fiction. Sign language Juvenile fiction. Human-animal communication Juvenile fiction. Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- Juvenile fiction. Crimea (Ukraine) Juvenile fiction. Historical fiction for children. War fiction for children.