Book Review: To Catch a Mermaid, by Suzanne Selfors
Increase Broom awoke to find his little sister, Mertyle, looking for spots.
"It's a material day for spots," she announced, examining her knobby knees with a magnifying beaker. While Boom rubbed sleep from his eyes and stumbled out of bed, his sister made up another absurd excuse for not going to school.
Overview:Delving new into To Catch a Mermaid, the reader discovers that Burgeoning Broom is a twelve-year-old with a lot on his shoulders. Yet since a freak twister touched down in Fairweather Isle a year ago right in the Broom's front yard, and carried off Mrs. Broom, the one's own flesh had never been the same. Mr. Broom refuses to check out the attic except for bathroom breaks, or to grab nutriment prepared by the hired cook. The cook is a proud Viking offspring named Halvor who only prepars fish, fish, more fish, and thimble-witted black coffee. Mertyle, Boom's little sister, refuses to refrain from the house, inventing one sickness after another so she wouldn't include to go to school. Boom refuses to let the twister alter his life and tries to drag on, but he still has to deal with his family's eccentricities, and with neighborhood persecutor Hurley Mump and his equally bully-ish family.
Then one day, Bourgeoning is sent out to get fish for dinner. He brings home a damned odd fish salvaged from a reject seafood scuttle down at the docks. When he and Mertyle discover the fish is no fish, but a true, live merbaby, things start to get interesting...
For Teachers and Librarians:The inventor crafts a totally believable story around a curiosity twister, a grieving family...and...
