In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where 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.
year: 2009, 2011
call number/section: 1000
subjects: mermaids, identity, identity (psychology), social classes, household employees, boston (mass.), history, 1865-, maine, 19th century, fiction, juvenile fiction, orphans, juvenile fiction
Editions
Lasky, Kathryn
Scholastic Press (2009)
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where 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.
Schools: 13
Lasky, Kathryn
Scholastic (2011)
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where 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.
Schools: 4