Mermaid Moon

Published |
Updated
 
0.0 (0)
319 0
download (1)

An award-winning author tells of a mermaid who leaves the sea in search of her landish mother in a captivating tale spun with beautiful prose, lush descriptions, empathy, and keen wit.

Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid — but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna’s people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born.

Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her mother and learn who she is. She apprentices herself to the witch to learn the magic of making and unmaking, and with a new pair of legs and a quest to complete for her teacher, she follows a clue that leads her ashore on the Thirty-Seven Dark Islands.

There, as her fellow mermaids wait in the sea, Sanna stumbles into a wall of white roses thirsty for blood, a hardscrabble people hungry for miracles, and a baroness who will do anything to live forever.

From the author of the Michael L. Printz Honor Book The Kingdom of Little Wounds comes a gorgeously told tale of belonging, sacrifice, fear, hope, and mortality.---from the publisher

496 pages                      978-1536209594                     Ages 13 and up

Keywords:  fantasy, mermaids, magic, sword and sorcery, quest, mother/daughter, historical fantasy, 13 year old, 14 year old, 15 year old

Read alike:  Damsel by Elana K. Arnold; The Brides of Rollrock Island by Margo Lanagan

Editor's Note: A loose re-interpretation of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid

User reviews

Have you read this book? We'd love to hear what you think. Click the button below to write your own review!
Already have an account? or Create an account