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Mermaids & Sea Creatures

Mermaids

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  • 1967 first published
  • 147 pages
  • 10 editions
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Patty Dann's Mermaids (1967) is a mermaid fiction novella. Much of the action takes place in Massachusetts. It deals with mothers and daughters, teenage girls, family life and coming of age.

20 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 10 editions.

At about 147 pages, most readers finish it in 2–3 hours.

About Mermaids

Follows the escapades and odyssey of Charlotte Flax, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl who yearns to become a saint and who falls in love with the shy young caretaker of a neighborhood convent in her sleepy 1960s Massachusetts town.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

Subjects

  • Mothers and daughters
  • Teenage girls
  • Family life
  • Massachusetts
  • Coming of age
  • Mermaids

Quick answers

Who wrote Mermaids?

Mermaids was written by Patty Dann and first published in 1967.

What genre is Mermaids?

It is usually shelved as Mermaids & Sea Creatures.

How long is Mermaids?

The median edition has 147 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Mermaids?

Readers who like it often enjoy Monstrous Beauty, Mermaid in Chelsea Creek and Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath (Real Mermaids #2).

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