The Diving Bell Author:Todd Strasser "You're either a very brave young girl...or a very foolish one." Culca wants to be a diver like her brother and the other young men of her Mexican village. But it's not proper for a young woman in her tribe to dive. Then the Spaniards arrive, invading Culca's home in the name of founding "the New World." They kidnap the village divers and take t... more »hem to the site of a shipwreck. The young men will be forced to dive for gold, even though the wreck is too deep--no diver can survive those depths. Culca knows her brother and her friends are being taken to their deaths. But she won't let that happen. She's going to find a way to save the divers--and she's not afraid to die trying.« less