Mermaid Moon (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781536209594)

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.

Author: Susann Cokal
ISBN-10: 1536209597
ISBN-13: 9781536209594
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2020
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 02/01/2020 pg. 76
Publishers Weekly 01/27/2020
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2020
Shelf Awareness 03/10/2020
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2020 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2020