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The islander

Cynthia Rylant

Islands In Fiction Mermaids Orphans In Fiction

A haunting children's story.

Living with his grandfather on an island off British Columbia, orphaned ten-year-old Daniel feels deep loneliness until the night he meets a mermaid.

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