Title: The summer of chasing mermaids
Description: After a boating accident takes her voice, Elyse d'Abreau leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town, where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.
Subjects: Mute persons, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Loss (Psychology), Dating (Social customs), Community life, West Indians, Communication, JUVENILE FICTION, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Mermaids, Social Themes, Emotions & Feelings, Speech disorders, Native Americans, Children's fiction, Dating (social customs), fiction, Oregon, fiction, Communication, fiction, Community life, fiction
Places: United States, West Indies, Oregon