Merrow
Written by Ananda Braxton-Smith
Narrated by Lucy Brownhill
3.5/5
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The people of Carrick Island have been whispering behind Neen's back ever since her father drowned and her mother disappeared.
The townspeople say her mother was a merrow and has returned to the ocean. Neen, caught in her hazy new in-between self-not a child, but not quite grown up-can't help but wonder if the villagers are right. But if her mother was a merrow, then what does that make Neen?
©2010 Ananda Braxton-Smith (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Ananda Braxton-Smith
Ananda Braxton-Smith is a journalist and children's writer who is passionate about communicating history to young people in new and innovative ways. She was a nominee for the Aurealis Award for Best YA Novel in 2010 (Merrow) and 2011 (Secrets of Carrick: Tantony), and a finalist in 2012 (Tantony). Merrow is her first book with Candlewick Press. She lives in Australia.
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Reviews for Merrow
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A slow start develops into a storied weave and the ending is well worth the reading. Neen's father is dead, her mother is gone, and she lives with an aunt who won't tell her anything. Set in an ancient time in an Irish/Scottish-like place, Braxton-Smith uses place as a character and dialect as characterization.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She is a wild girl, full of stories and covered in scales, growing up without a mother or a father. Although her aunt raised her it is the stories surrounding the island of Carrick that she lives on, stories of Other Ones, changeling's, the honey-tongued and cave people. But the stories she craves most are the stories of her own family, her great-grandfathers merrow wife, her fathers search for a sea wife, her mother's watery end.With her affinity for water the long hot summer has driven her to the seabed for respite and answers, however it is through a hidden cave of hands, a man washed ashore in a net and an encounter with an ancient one that brings about the answers she so desperately needs. But when the truth is revealed it is not the story she had been hoping for, but with the truth she is finally able to find peace in her own story.Merrow brings a young girls dreams of hope, magic and merrow's to life only to have those dreams transformed with the truth into memories of a woman who loved and was loved, a woman who was her mother. Neen's summer is one filled with stifling heat, enchanted stories, hidden truths, uncovered pasts and a new found affinity for bees. A notable story that is as wondrous as it is fulfilling.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There is a mystery about what happened to Neen’ parents. Her Aunt Ushag says that Neen’s father drowned and her mother ran away but people in the village say that her mother was a merrow or mermaid. Neen isn’t sure what to think but her dreams of merrows disturb her and her aunt seems cold and distant.The setting and language of this book adds charm to this story of a young girl’s search for identity. Suitable for teen girls.