Title: The Serpent came to Gloucester
Description: Rhyming text tells of a sea serpent that plays off the coast of Massachusetts the summer of 1817, and is hunted upon its return the next year. Includes a page of facts upon which the story is based.
Subjects: Fiction, Fishers, History, Sea monsters, Stories in rhyme, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Massachusetts, history, fiction
Places: Gloucester (Mass.), Gloucester, Massachusetts, Massachusetts
Time periods: 19th century