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Just the Series: Daughters Of the Sea Vol. 3

Series and Publisher: Daughters Of the Sea

Annotation: When seventeen-year-old Lucy's father, a minister, gets a summer position in Maine, her mother determines to find a rich husband for her daughter, but Lucy is fascinated by the sea and a handsome ship-builder.

Genre: [Historical fiction] [Fantasy fiction]

Reviews: 2

Catalog Number: #5273009

Format: Publisher's Hardcover

Publisher: Scholastic Book Service

Edition Date: 2012 Release Date: 03/01/12

Pages: 312 pages

ISBN: 0-439-78312-7

ISBN 13: 978-0-439-78312-5

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 2011046488

Dimensions: 22 cm.

Subject Heading:
Mermaids. Fiction.
Identity. Fiction.
Social classes. Fiction.
Clergy. Fiction.
Maine. History. 19th century. Fiction.

Language: English

Reviews:

ALA Booklist

The third book in the Daughters of the Sea series introduces Lucy, one of three sisters separated at birth. Brought up as the daughter of a New York City minister and his wife, she feels discomforted by her parents' attempts at social climbing and matchmaking. When her family spends the summer of 1899 in Bar Harbor, Lucy discovers her sisters, her identity as a mermaid, and the truth about her mother. Once again, Lasky weaves historical fiction, romance, and fantasy into an appealing narrative, though with the unresolved "crime novel" element at the end, this book feels less complete than its predecessors.

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Adopted Lucy has never fit in with her minister father and socialite mother. But when they move to Maine for the summer, Lucy transforms into a mermaid in the water and finally feels at peace. The plot of this 1899-set story largely focuses on high society and all of its trappings, but it's nicely buoyed by the fantastical mermaid thread.

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Word Count: 50,854

Reading Level: 5.1

Interest Level: 5-9

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.1 / points: 8.0 / quiz: 150586 / grade: Middle Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:4.6 / points:14.0 / quiz:Q57096

Lexile: 750L

Guided Reading Level: U

Fountas & Pinnell: U

A choice between love and survival . . .

Lucy's family is excited to spend the summer in Bar Harbor, Maine. Her minister father is pleased to preside over such a prestigious congregation, and his social-climbing wife is ecstatic at the chance to find a rich husband for her daughter. Yet Lucy wants nothing to do with the Bar Harbor social scene; she's simply excited to spend the summer by the sea, watching the waves from her favorite spot on the cliff. Despite having never gone swimming, Lucy feels an intense connection to the ocean, and meets a handsome ship-builder who shows Lucy a world she's never known, yet somehow always longed for. However, her mother will stop at nothing to keep Lucy and the ship builder apart, even if it means throwing Lucy into the arms of a wealthy man with a dangerous secret. Can Lucy break free and embrace her destiny as a daughter of the sea? Or is she doomed to waste away in a gilded cage, slowly dying of a broken heart?

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