Fourteen-year-old Val and his older brother Jacques are lost in the Caribbean Ocean when a mass of fibrous tentacles pulls their rowboat into a cloud of mist and crushes it. Kids carrying symbiont amphibious creatures welcome them to Phyta, a floating paradise where the symbiont pairs swim like fish and glide like birds as they ride the tropical storms. Jacques is an instant convert. He bonds with a symbiont and begins learning to swim and fly. Like...