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Seal Song

by Andrea Spalding

SelkiesSeals (Animals)Juvenile fictionFictionJUVENILE FICTIONGeneralShapeshiftingChildren's fiction

Finn loves to swim with the seals in a secret cove. He arrives at the cove one day and rescues a young seal tangled in netting. Finn wishes the seal could live on land. That night the seals sing. "No good comes from the seal songs," says Finn's father. When Sheila, a mysterious girl no one has ever seen before, appears on the cannery docks, the fisher folk are uneasy. They believe the newcomer is a magical selkie, a shape changer.

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Book data: Open Library