Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat
As the book takes the reader on a journey around the world
wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Russia sends her on a different path
action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth
Ann is happy to indulge the researchers' more outlandish theories about the history of fortune telling
Fins Format:Paperback Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and herIn Fins, pirates catch sharks in a marine reserve, lop off their fins, and discard the sharks for dead. A series of puzzling, apparently related shark attacks follows, suggesting that sentient sharks are cooperating to exact more than revenge. The carnage escalates until a brilliant, beautiful, beleaguered forensic technician risking probable death and certain dismemberment discovers the secret behind the attacks, revealing much more than was