Grayson - Lynne Cox

I bought this yesterday at the Barnes & Noble in downtown Denver as a gift for Grayson - I thought he'd like a book with his name and a picture of a whale on the cover.  It's a short book (about 138 pages and larger type) so I read it before bed.  Nice writing and interesting story, but the 17 year old lead character was way too mature, and the dialogue (such as it is - it's really a little one sided with her saying things to a whale) gets progressively cheesy.  Not that you wouldn't think that and your heart wouldn't go out to the lost whale, but you wouldn't say this stuff out loud - and a 17 year old wouldn't think it, I don't think.