Recommendations based on "The Shark's Tooth"

SELECTED AS WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTHSHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARDA heart-breaking, heart-warming novel for everyone of 10 and older this book will probably make you cry, and will definitely make you laugh.Cymbeline Igloo (yes, really!) has NEVER been swimmingNot ever. Not once.But how hard can it be Hes Googled front crawl and hes found his dads old pair of trunks. Hes totally ready.What hes not ready for is the accident at the pool or how it leads his mum to a sudden breakdown.Now, with the help of friends old and new, Cymbeline must solve the mystery of why his mum never took him near water and it will turn his whole life upside downA wonderful story, moving and funny Ross Welford

When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired village doctor and the schoolteacher, to the beachcomber and the owner of the local bar, the priest's wife and the romantic novelist, they take this lost soul into their midst. But what the villagers don't know is that Joe Haak worked as an analyst and has fled the City amid fears of a worldwide banking collapse caused by a computer program he invented. But is the end of the world really nigh? And what of the whale that lurks in the bay?Intimate, funny and deeply moving, NOT FORGETTING THE WHALE is the story of a man on a journey to find a place he can call home.

A tender coming-of-age novel about a young woman haunted by her sister's death, who starts to believe that her beloved sibling has returned to her--in the form of a ghost fish, for fans of Sweetbitter and Our Wives Under the Sea. Alison is mired in loneliness and grief. Freshly twenty-three and mourning the loss of her younger sister, who has drowned at sea, she's moved out of her hometown and into a cramped apartment on New York's Lower East Side. Now she's living the cliché, barely making rent as a restaurant hostess and avoiding her roommates, while watching the bright, busy passersby from her bubble of grief. She doesn't need originality; she just needs to be alive. Then, late one night, she rounds the corner and sees a shape in the air--a ghost. And how strange, it looks like a fish. What is it? Alison knows, without hesitation: it is her beloved sister, finally returned to her side. Safe in a pickle jar filled with water, the ghost fish goes wherever Alison does: in an alcove at the restaurant; in a tote bag on the subway; in her room at night as her roommates chatter outside. She knows she has to keep her safe from the world, the way she didn't before. She knows that, together, they will never be lonely again. But as Alison's new life in New York begins to grow, and as she navigates the murky waters of dating, friendship, and desire, she must ask: what if her sister is keeping her away from a life outwardly lived? With tenderness and heart, stretching from New York City to Key West, Ghost Fish is a meditation on grief and loneliness, and the strange, kaleidoscopic ways we help ourselves--and those we love--through them.

Moonrise Kingdom is set in 1965 on an island off the coast of New England.It's the end of the summer and the seasonal hurricanes loom on the horizon.Set against this background is a romance between two twelve-year-olds: Lucy Bishop, (who lives on the island with her parents [Bill Murray and Frances McDormand] and three younger brothers) and Sam (an orphan who is camping on the island with the Khaki Scout troop).Lucy and Sam hatch a secret plan to run away, and undertake a perilous journey though the woods and across the streams that criss-cross the island, to an isolated cove, where they set up their kingdom. They are pursued by the local sheriff (Bruce Willis) and the scout troop leader Scout Master Ward (Edward Norton).The follies of youth are matched by the compromises of age, and as the conflict between the generations escalates, the hurricane breaks upon the island putting all the characters at risk...

For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later.At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, the largest passenger steamship of this time, met its catastrophic end after crashing into an iceberg. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew onboard, only 705 survived. More than 100 years later, today's readers will be intrigued by the mystery that surrounds this ship that was originally labeled "unsinkable."

In many ways, hot-tempered field agent Rachel Porter deals better with endangered animals than she does with people -- which is why her superiors at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dispatch her to the most god-forsaken places. Georgia's steaming coastal swampland is her latest assignment, where she quickly runs afoul of the local authorities. But someone is operating an illegal manatee water park here, and Rachel is determined to shut it down. Worse still, these fascinating mammals are dying in alarming numbers for unknown reasons. And when people being dying as well, Rachel's righteous fury is tinged with fear. Because answers and predators alike are waiting for her in a dark and terrifying place: a toxic "Dead Zone" that spells certain doom for any trespassing human, manatee ... or wildlife agent.

Dive into another exciting magical adventure for girls - will you answer the call of Silver Dolphins? Antonia is a secret Silver Dolphin - she's responsible for helping the creatures of the bay when their environment is threatened, by responding to the call of her magic necklace. Antonia and Cai are helping Hannah set up another Sea Watch charity to look after local dolphins and seals. But when thunderstorms cause a landslide, the Silver Dolphins face their biggest challenge yet...

'Suddenly I was back in the blurry green undersea world. And the shark was there, too. Coming straight at me. Fast!' Sam Fox is on holidays at the Great Barrier Reef when he and a young Japanese tourist are swept off a coral shelf by a freak wave. Before they know it, a strong current has pushed them out into open water. First Sam must fight to keep himself and his new friend from drowning; then, as night falls over the inky black ocean, the underwater predators start moving in . . . An action-packed rollercoaster ride, Shark Bait is the most thrilling (and scary) Extreme Adventure yet! Visit puffin.com.au/extreme for more.

Jamie and Tom are back in the Permian era and decide to do some snorkelling and look at all the weird and wonderful creatures beneath the sea. Wanna can't swim but he wants to come too, so the boys make him a boat from an enormous trilobite shell. The three friends discover a secret pool of water and decide to explore . . . but disaster strikes! They're not the only ones in the pool. They've been joined by three prehistoric sharks with ferocious unravelling jaws full of razor-sharp teeth. When Wanna falls off his shell-boat, it's up to Jamie and Tom to lure the sharks away before their little dino-friend becomes Permian shark food!

A major motion picture based on the books coming soon!A New York Times BestsellerA TIME Magazine Top Ten Children’s BookTurn little pouts into big smiles with the splashy first book in the New York Times bestselling Pout-Pout Fish series!Deep in the water,Mr. Fish swims aboutWith his fish face stuckIn a permanent pout.Can his pals cheer him up?Will his pout ever end?Is there something he can learnFrom an unexpected friend?Swim along with Mr. Fish as he discovers that being glum and spreading "dreary wearies" isn't really his destiny. Bright ocean colors and playful rhymes come together in this fun fish story that's sure to turn even the poutiest of frowns upside down.There are more Pout-Pout Fish and Worry-Worry Whale books in the sea:The Pout-Pout Fish In the Big-Big DarkThe Pout-Pout Fish Goes To SchoolThe Not Very Merry Pout-Pout FishThe Pout-Pout Fish, Far, Far From HomeThe Pout-Pout Fish and the Bully-Bully SharkThe Pout-Pout Fish and the Can't-Sleep BluesThe Pout-Pout Fish Cleans Up the OceanThe Pout-Pout Fish and the Mad, Mad DayThe Pout-Pout Fish and the Worry-Worry WhaleThe Worry-Worry Whale and the Classroom JittersThe Worry-Worry Whale Made 32 MistakesThe Worry-Worry Whale and the Halloween Scaries (Coming soon!)