Rorby, Ginny,

How to speak dolphin / Ginny Rorby. - First edition. - 264 pages ; 20cm.

Since her mother died, twelve-year-old Lily has struggled to care for her severely autistic half-brother, Adam, in their Miami home, but she is frustrated and angry because her oncologist step-father, Don, expects her to devote her time to Adam, and is unwilling to admit that Adam needs professional help--but when Adam bonds with a young dolphin with cancer Lily is confronted with another dilemma: her family or the dolphin's freedom.

ISBN: 9780545685320

LCCN: 2014038850

Subjects--Topical Terms: --Fiction.
Autism--Fiction.
Dolphins--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Stepfathers--Fiction.
Family life--Florida--Miami--Fiction.
Responsibility--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Miami (Fla.)--Fiction.