the mermaid's sister  <p><b>amazon breakthrough novel award winner for young adult fiction</b></p><p><b>realm award winner for best speculative fiction of the year</b></p><p><i>there is no cure for being who you really are...</i></p> <p>in a cottage high atop llanfair mountain, sixteen-year-old clara lives with her sister, maren, and guardian auntie. by day, they gather herbs for auntie’s healing potions; by night, auntie spins tales of faraway lands and wicked fairies. clara’s favorite story tells of three orphaned infants—clara, who was brought to auntie by a stork; maren, who arrived in a seashell; and their best friend, o’neill, who was found beneath an apple tree. </p><p>one day, clara discovers iridescent scales just beneath her sister’s skin: maren is becoming a mermaid and must be taken to the sea or she will die. so clara, o’neill, and the mermaid-girl set out for the shore. but the trio encounters trouble around every bend. ensnared by an evil troupe of traveling performers, clara and o’neill must find a way to save themselves and the ever-weakening maren. </p><p>and always in the back of her mind, clara wonders, <i>if my sister is a mermaid, then what am i?</i></p>