Title: Lost Voices Author: Sarah Porter Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Publication Date: July 4, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-0547482507 304pp. ARC provided by publisher through NetGalley This book isn't on my official Debut Author Challenge list , but I couldn't resist that cover. I mean, come on. It's gorgeous. Evocative. I had to read it. Lost Voices is no princess mermaid book. If a reader who loves the Emily Windsnap books is looking for a read-alike, this isn't it. Lost Voices has dark, edgy mermaids who are more Siren than Little Mermaid. The story centers on Luce, a 14-year-old girl who lives with her alcoholic uncle in a small Alaskan fishing village. Her mother died when she was young, but her father has just recently died in a shipwreck. Life with her uncle turns from horrible to horrific after one of his drunken rampages goes too far. Luce escapes him, only to inexplicably find that she has turned into a mermaid. She befriends a tribe of ...
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