Iris has always been deaf. It's not so bad - her mom knows sign language, her grandma is deaf (so was her grandfather but he recently died) and she has deaf friends. But her mom wants her to go to a "normal" school and she has trouble fitting in when sometimes conversations go on around her. When Iris hears about a whale whose song is at a different frequency than other whales she decides he must be lonely and works to create a song just for him. Doing so leads to communication with an institute in Alaska that is trying to track him and eventually leads to Iris and her grandmother skipping town on a cruise to see the whale themselves.
This was really good - not only the aspects of deaf culture but the science with the whales, sound, and Iris's fascination with fixing radios. A really nice look at belonging as well.
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