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The Mermaid's Twin Sister
More Stories from Trinidad
By Joseph, Lynn & Perrone, Donna
- ISBN
- 978-0-39564-365-5
- Publisher
- New York : Clarion Books, c1994.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1994
Gr 4-7 Six short stories, set in Trinidad, from the author of A Wave in Her Pocket (Clarion, 1991). The narrator is Amber, 12, who gathers with her cousins to listen to her grandaunt's stories. Tantie's tales are filled with images of the supernatural, from the duennes who threaten newborn babies who are not properly baptized to the mermaid of the title story who loses her human form when she defiantly goes for a swim on Easter Sunday. Several sele...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
