To Catch a Mermaid

Suzanne Selfors
Little, Brown Young Readers (2007)
ISBN 9780316018166
Review by Anneliese Buenker (age 9) for Reader Views (10/07)


“To Catch a Mermaid” is about a boy named Boom and his sister Mertyle.  They live on Fairweather Island.  Boom had his mom taken away from him by a twister and since then, Mertyle and Boom’s father have never stepped farther than the porch.  One day, Havlor (the butler in the house) told Boom to get some fish from the dock and only gave him $3.00.  Boom couldn’t find anything for $3.00 so a fisherman told him to look in the reject seafood box.  He found the only fish in the box and it looked really weird.   When he took it home he found out that it was a merbaby.   Boom let his sister keep the merbaby.  The title of the book comes from an exciting ending and I don’t want to spoil it for you.  I love this book and I hope you will too.  I recommend “To Catch a Mermaid” for kids ages 9 and up who like reading fantasy books.

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