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Selkie Girl
Selkie Girl
Author: Laurie Brooks
ELIN JEAN HAS always known she was different from the others on their remote island home. She is a gentle soul, and can?t stand the annual tradition of killing seal babies to thin the population. Even Tam McCodron, the gypsy boy to whom she is strangely drawn, seems to belong more than she does. — It?s just a matter of time until Elin Jean discov...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375851704
ISBN-10: 0375851704
Publication Date: 10/14/2008
Pages: 272
Reading Level: Young Adult
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Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This was an interesting twist on a classic coming of age story, where a young girl must chose between family or adventure. Very mild romance throughout the story.

LOTS of violence. I was surprised at how violent and upsetting some scenes were, especially for a Young Adult book! Murder, self-mutilation, bullying - pretty heavy stuff for an otherwise light book.


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