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The Changeling Sea
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The Changeling Sea (1988) (edit title/settings)

by Patricia A. McKillip (Author) (edit contributors)

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Since the day her father's fishing boat returned without him, Peri and her mother have mourned his loss. Her mother sinks into a deep depression and spends her days gazing out at the sea. Unable to control her anger and sadness any longer, Peri uses the small magic she knows to hex the sea. ... read more

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  • “Even in the middle of the island, at the farthest point from the sea, I hear the tide, I know when it changes. I dream of the sea, I want to breathe it like air, I want to wear it like skin.”
    Kir
  • “Love and anger are like land and sea: they meet in many different places.”
  • “The old woman's enchantments never seemed to work; neither did Peri's. But for some odd reason they fascinated Peri, as if by tying a knot in a piece of string she was binding one stray piece of life to another, bridging by magic the confusing distances between things.”

First Sentence edit see section history

NO ONE REALLY KNEW where Peri lived the year after the sea took her father and cast his boat, shrouded in a tangle of fishing net, like an empty shell back onto the beach.

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This book is in Firebird Fantasy. (edition-based publisher list)

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  1. Patricia A. McKillip (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing company
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0-14-131262-9
Page Count: 137

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Reading Level: Young Adults

There are no themes or language inappropriate for children, but some of the vocabulary may be challenging.

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