The Mermaid's Sister

ISBN: 1477820884

Author: Noble, Carrie Anne

Condition: New

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winner for Young Adult FictionRealm Award Winner for Best Speculative Fiction of the YearThere is no cure for being who you really are...In a cottage high atop Llanfair Mountain, sixteen-year-old Clara lives with her sister, Maren, and guardian Auntie. By day, they gather herbs for Aunties healing potions; by night, Auntie spins tales of faraway lands and wicked fairies. Claras favorite story tells of three orphaned infants-Clara, who was brought to Auntie by a stork; Maren, who arrived in a seashell; and their best friend, ONeill, who was found beneath an apple tree.One day, Clara discovers iridescent scales just beneath her sisters skin: Maren is becoming a mermaid and must be taken to the sea or she will die. So Clara, ONeill, and the mermaid-girl set out for the shore. But the trio encounters trouble around every bend. Ensnared by an evil troupe of traveling performers, Clara and ONeill must find a way to save themselves and the ever-weakening Maren.And always in the back of her mind, Clara wonders, if my sister is a mermaid, then what am I?