English Summary/英文概要： Sometimes finding your way home takes more than courage. It takes a leap of faith.

Chasing at the Surface tells the story of a young girl’s courage and the healing power of nature. After her mother unexpectedly leaves home, twelve-year old Marisa struggles with her feelings of loss and abandonment just as a pod of nineteen orca whales—mothers with their new calves following a run of chum salmon—become trapped in the enclosed inlet near her Northwest home. Marisa’s journey to help the whales find their way home brings her to a new understanding of the assaults humans have had on nature, and the complicated meaning of family and home.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 有時候找到回家的路，你需要的不僅是勇氣，還需要充滿信念的一躍。

一個關於少女的勇氣以及自然療癒力量的故事。 在母親突然無預警的離家出走之後，十二歲的少女Marisa陷入了失落和被拋棄的痛苦，她感覺自己就像那群被困在她家鄉附近入海口的虎鯨，而在幫助虎鯨回家的過程中，她認識到人類對於大自然的侵擾和破壞，同時，也重新理解到什麼是一個家和家人真正的意義。 (Zoe)

Sharon Mentyka is a graduate of the MFA program of the Whidbey Writers Workshop and she has had stories and essays published in various literary magazines for both children and adults, including Columbia Kids, a publication of the Washington State History Museum, Soundings Review, and Cricket magazine. B in the World, an illustrated chapter book for children ages four to seven about a gender nonconforming child, was published in 2014.