Close to Shore adapted by Michael Capuzzo

Since it is the start of summer, I want to share a book that explains the real story that was the basis of both the book and the movie called JAWS. If you never heard of either, just ask the adults in your life. I saw the movie in junior high and it was scary, but not as scary as the sharks that hunted unsuspecting swimmers in the waters in 1916. A Great White was killing where no shark could. How did it get that far inland? What about its friends munching on the swimmers near the most popular resorts? What could have caused all those attacks when that many have never been recorded before? What would your mother have done when the July 13, 1916 New York Tribune 's headline read "Shark Kills Man in Battle for Body of Boy; Cripples Another Lad Off Raritan Shore"? Never let you go swimming again? Would you have listened to her or your friends? All I know is that when I stepped into the Atlantic Ocean after JAWS, even my little sister yelled for me to get out. I think she just didn't want to see me get eaten in front of her, knowing my sister - the piggy one. Read this if you dare to learn what happened, who tried to cover it up, and why we are now more dangerous to sharks than they are to us.