num_pages: 250
description: Learning about the threat that will destroy the world in which she lives, fourteen-year-old Merle, an orphan girl protected by the Flowing Queen and apprenticed by a magic mirror maker, heads off on a perilous journey to use her magic to put a stop to all those involved in this fantastical tale set in Venice, Italy.
language: English
title: The Water Mirror
titlecomplete: The Water Mirror (Dark Reflections, #1)
characters: Merle, Unke, Arcimboldo, Serafin, Junipa
genres: Fiction, Magic, Adventure, Young Adult Fantasy, German Literature, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 5386
places: Venice
series: Merle-Zyklus, Merle-Trilogie
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize)
publisher: Margaret K. McElderry