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Author:

Fama, Elizabeth.

Title:

Monstrous beauty / Elizabeth Fama.

Edition:

1st Square Fish ed.

Publisher:

Square Fish/Farrar Straus Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

295 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Mermaids--Juvenile fiction.
Ghosts--Juvenile fiction.
Murder--Juvenile fiction.
Supernatural--Juvenile fiction.
Massachusetts--Juvenile fiction.
Massachusetts--History--19th century--Juvenile fiction.
Mermaids--Fiction.
Ghosts--Fiction.
Murder--Fiction.
Supernatural--Fiction.
Massachusetts--Fiction.
Massachusetts--History--19th century--Fiction.

Notes:

Copyright date 2012. Includes bonus material following story.

Summary:

In alternating chapters, tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka.

ISBN:

1250034256
9781250034250 (pbk.)

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

JLPF081 -- Ericson Public Library (Boone)

YXPB162 -- Clarence Public Library (Edna Zybell Memorial Library) (Clarence)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

BGPE251 -- Perry Public Library (Perry)

BZPC851 -- Slater Public Library (Slater)