Cry of the Seals

Noah has always been different. When he was five years old, he would give an embarrassed shrug to try to explain the webbing between his fingers. Now at fifteen, he adeptly sidesteps the topic of his physical appearance—but he is clueless about how to explain the voices that recently started reverberating in his head. How can he explain crazy?

The first time he hears the voices, they push him to try to save some wayward whales stuck in a Northern California river seven hours away. He fails, ...