This was a very enjoyable read with depth, fun, adventure, and family/friends bonds. This was a story about Razi, a local fisherboy, who's enjoying nature while watching turtles hatching on the beach when a boat comes up on shore and he finds another boy, Zheng who escaped from a shipwreck. Zheng asks for help from Razi to find the missing treasure and has to hide from the bad guys who are also after the treasure and after Zheng too. Razi enlists his sister, Shifa, who is also a healer/healer in training to try to figure out what to do and how to help Zheng.
Razi is hesitant at first to help Zheng go on a boat and chart the waters to the destination for the treasure because of his fear or perhaps being uncomfortable and upset with the water because of his grief with the recent death of his father, but soon enough he decides he has to help Razi and the three of them set off. They go off to find the treasure and along the way run into the whale(s) and it's an incredible part in the story with that aspect of nature and animals with the whale. It's also very touching, sometimes emotional, exciting, and a fantastic story. If you haven't read it, go read it now! Thanks so much to Edelweiss and Peachtree Publishing Company for the chance to read and review this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. ( )

A nice adventure story for middle school kids. The title is a bit misleading in that there is a whale but his part in the story in minor at best. The story centers on a young boy who escapes a sinking ship and ends up on a vacant beach. Two men are chasing him beause he has information about the location of a hidden treasure. The boy is befriended by a brother and sister (twins) who help him escape them and aid the treasure hunt. ( )