The islander
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Cynthia Rylant
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Mermaids -- Fiction; Loneliness -- Fiction; Islands -- Fiction; Grandfathers -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Living with his grandfather on an island off British Columbia, orphaned ten-year-old Daniel feels deep loneliness until the night he meets a mermaid whose identity he tries to learn
Notes: Originally published: New York : DK Publishing, 1998

"A Yearling book."