Ben M. Baglio

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Ben M. Baglio is the author of Dolphin Diaries series and Animal Ark series. Dolphin Diaries introduces a girl named Jody McGrath and her family from Florida, who are marine biologists as they travel around the world studying dolphins. Animal Ark introduces two kids named Mandy and James and they work together to help animals and solve animal mysteries.

Other characters of Dolphin Diaries are Brittany Pierce, Captain Pierce, Cameron Tucker, the tutor Maddie, her twin brothers Sean and Jimmy, her mother Gina who is Italian, and her dad Craig who is Irish. Along the way, she meets many new friends that are human and friends that are Dolphin and she has many great experiences! The characters of Animal Ark books change in every book the only characters who stay the same are Mandy and James.

In Dolphin Diaries, Jody McGrath discovers and befriends a friendly Bottlenose Dolphin whom she names Apollo. He is a lone dolphin and Jody united him to his "new" pod, and follows her for a while through the series.As the story proceeds, she meets others along the way.

In Animal Ark, Mandy Hope and her friend James Hunter helps helpless and injured animals throughout the series, and sometimes she helps perished animals on a "mission". Her parents, Adam and Emily Hope, are vets, which comes in handy in helping the animals she comes across. Mandy is not allowed o own a pet herself. Other characters are Simon and a fellow nurse, and Jean Knox the receptionist. There is also a black lab named blackie that belongs to James who sometimes goes on the adventures.