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Annie Lumsden, the Girl from the Sea

Annie Lumsden, the Girl from the Sea

Published: 4 May 2023

Paperback / softback, 64 pages

Recommended for age 7+ and 9+

By David Almond

Illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna

Published by Walker Books Ltd

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My mother says that all things can be turned to tales. I thought she meant tales like fish tails, but I was wrong.

She meant tales like this, tales that are stories. But this tale of mine is very like a fish tail too... Annie has never been like the other girls.

Her mam tried sending her to school when she was small, but Annie couldn't seem to make words or numbers stick. She prefers instead to be swimming in the sea, or sunbathing on the shore at Stupor Beach, her head full of tales. She should have been a fish, her mam always tells her, and Annie knows the truth of it.

Then a stranger who comes to town is struck by the beauty and the wonder of her, and Annie Lumsden realizes that perhaps she really is half a creature from the sea.

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