The Tide Walker

The world's highest tides drain Nova Scotia's Minas Basin to bare red mud twice a day, then come roaring back faster than a person can run, and fourteen-year-old Jacob Boudreau knows every channel. On a foggy dawn three kilometers from shore, he finds a young right whale stranded on the flats and trailing rope. Saving it makes him a local hero. Freeing it may cost him his father, his home, and the old woman who taught him to read the water.