Copyright © 2009 by Kathryn Lasky
Jacket photo illustration © 2009 by Jonathan Barkat
Jacket design by Lillie Mear
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Lasky, Kathryn.
Daughters of the sea : Hannah / by Kathryn Lasky.
p. cm.
Summary: In 1899 when a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston’s wealthiest families, she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.
ISBN-13: 978-0-439-78310-1 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-439-78310-0 (alk. paper)
[1. Mermaids—Fiction. 2. Identity—Fiction. 3. Social classes—Fiction. 4. Household employees—Fiction. 5. Orphans—Fiction. 6. Boston (Mass.)—History—1865—Fiction. 7. Maine—History— 19th century—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Hannah.
PZ7.L3274Da 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2009008433
First edition, September 2009
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