Experience the world through the eyes of Amelia, a beautiful intelligent Loggerhead turtle as she travels on her lifelong journey across the vast Pacific Ocean. Born on Yakushima Island in Japan, one of a hundred hatchlings, Amelia’s survival is immediately threatened as she wriggles and crawls to the temporary safety of the ocean’s kelp beds. As a young 10 year old juvenile and following the instincts of her ancient ancestors, Amelia swims and drifts eastward 8,119 miles until she arrives in a little backwater region off the coast ofBaja California, Mexico. It is in Baja that Amelia develops a life-long friendship with Carlos, the 10 year old son of Santiago, a fisherman who hunts turtles to support his family. Like she does for Carlos, Amelia will enlighten and transform the reader’s view of the world,from marine biology, to the dangers of global warming, to the pollution of our oceans caused by plastic bags and straws, to the rapid extinction of the world’s endangered species of animals caused by the devastating consequences of overfishing, overhunting, and oil spills. Amelia, the eternal optimist, extends a powerful message for the conservation of our natural resources as well as the preservation of the habitats of the world’s endangered species. Follow Amelia as sets her internal compass and embarks on her epic and life threatening voyagefrom Baja to Yakushima Island to lay her eggs on the same exact beach where she was born thirty years earlier. No-one knows, not even Amelia, whether she will survive her journey home to complete her circle of life. Representing clients for more than 40 years, Joseph W. Scalia is a tenured and talented attorney who focuses his practice on business, real estate, employment and sports and entertainment law. Mr. Scalia has been an AV-Preeminent Rated Attorney by Martindale-Hubbell since 1998. In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Joseph W. Scalia, Esq., was recently presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Scalia holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, where he was a member of the Law Review and the Traynor Honor Society. A settlement judge pro tempore for the Sacramento County Superior Court since 1988, Mr. Scalia has also been a California Real Estate Broker since 1982 and has been serving as an arbitrator for the Sacramento County Judicial Arbitration Association since 1989. Mr. Scalia formerly served on the board of directors of the National Multiple Sclerosis Mountain Valley California chapter and as a governing board member of the McGeorge Community Legal Services Center. He is a member of the Sacramento County Bar Association, the State Bar of California and is also currently a mediator for alternative dispute resolution with El Dorado County Superior Court. Since 2002, Mr. Scalia has served as a faculty member and lecturer for the National Business Institute in the areas of buying and selling businesses, corporate and limited liability company litigation, employment law, real property litigation, as well as title law and insurance. In 2013, Mr. Scalia co-authored a CEB publication entitled "Neighbor Disputes- Law and Litigation." "The Adventures of Amelia Loggerhead" represents his first endeavor for young readers. Born and raised in El Cerrito/Berkeley, CA, he will be devoting more of his time working on non-profit projects in Panama in the future.