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Review Summary
Nita is visiting the beach when a wizard that is a whale, asks her and Kit, her wizardry partner, to assist in the completion of a song that will save the ocean. During the adventure the meet up with a giant shark named Ed and other amazing sea creatures to save lives throughout the world.
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Nita and Kit, two teenage wizards are on vacation when they are asked for help from the whales and dolphins to bind evil. Nita unknowingly promises to be the sacrifice, and struggles with the decision to go through with her promise.
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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy story on current Earth
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes
Plotlets: - preventing an ecological disaster
Mental/magical powers focus Yes
magical powers: - clash between evenly matched magical power(s) (fantasy)
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - coping with mental/magical powers - change of heart
Lifeform altered? Yes
Kind of alteration: - Magically turned into another being
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - student - mage/magician
Age: - a teen
Has magical/special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character: - can talk to animals - can cast many different spells - healing
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male - magical being
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - killer - mage/magician
Has magical powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - can change shapes - can cast all sorts of spells
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an above average amount - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - bulging muscles

Setting
Terrain - Water - Domed/Underground City
Earth setting: - 20th century
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death - explicit references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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