"Bluefish," writes the author, are "animated chopping machines. They will eat anything alive. They have stripped the toes from surfers in Florida. They can't not eat." Hersey weaves fact and legend around his subject, engaging the reader with juicy details of ocean life, philosophy, natural history, and the crises into which man has let his environment slide.

When three bears go fishing in a little house on the ice and catch only one fish, they have a good time eating what they have brought in their backpacks.

"Jim wants to catch a fish in his net, but he keeps getting other things instead! Young readers can challenge themselves using the reading comprehension quiz at the end of the story"--

When the boat they are on is hijacked by terrorists, the Silva family must work together to save themselves and the pipeline the terrorists are threatening to blow up.

When Jill goes on a fishing trip with her grandma, will she catch the clever carp? Full-color illustrations and a reading comprehension activity makes this story perfect for emerging readers.

The sea is inside his blood. Cursed, or blessed, on both sides. When sixteen-year-old Rudra Solace dredges up a long-hidden secret in his father's trawl net, his life in the sleepy fishing village of Patonga shifts dramatically. It is not long before Rudra is leaving Australia behind, bound for India on a journey of discovery and danger. A wonderfully compelling tale of belonging and loss, of saltwater and mangroves, of migration and accepting change;...