"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. Dyer has created the characters, but Reid has created the memory.– Joyce Rice, Palm Beach County Schools, Lake Worth, FLĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. She gives each character a perfect voice. Alison Reid's delightful British accent gives Heather Dyer's first novel for children the lilt of a lovely melody as she takes us oceanside to meet these characters. Discovery of another sort will answer many of Toby's questions about his origins. The story ensues as Toby tries to protect the Flots from being discovered. Thus begins his adventure with the Flot family, mermaids who live under the pier.
On a windy afternoon, Toby is walking alone along the beach when a strange cracking sound catches his attention. He doesn't have many friends his own age, so he spends most of his time with the hotel's housekeeper. Grade 3-5–Toby's life is filled with chores around the hotel that he has called home ever since he was left on its doorstep as a baby. All rights reserved From School Library Journal: Karin SnelsonĬopyright © American Library Association. Bailey's spidery ink sketches of the pointy-nosed cast, about three per chapter, are as captivating as the story. but how, when the sneaky owner's son, Nigel, won't quit shadowing him? Readers who love Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach will adore this funny, old-fashioned orphan-finds-a-new-family tale. Harris spies it, he vows to comb the beach for the rest of the duke's treasure, lost 10 years ago in a shipwreck. He eventually befriends Eliza Flot and her mermaid family, and they give him a duke's gold signet ring from their collection of sunken treasure.
Things pick up for Toby when he's out under the pier and hears a mermaid cracking mussels with her teeth. Orphaned Toby has lived in a seaside hotel ever since he can remember, wearing the same pair of pajamas and working as a servant for the hotel's owner, the thoroughly unpleasant Mr.
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