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"I thought she was a mermaid at first," said U.S. Coast Guard LJG Monica Stone. But the rescued girl found off the coast of Florida is not a mermaid. She is a human child, a refugee lost at sea, raised by dolphins from the age of four. They call her Mila, from miracle in Spanish, and take... read more

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  • Mila: Mila was a girl who was picked coast and was in a hospital where she is learning to take care of herself
  • Sandy: Mila's primary caretakerSandy wants to stay at the hospital with Mila. Sandy wants to stay with Mila because she likes to see her.Sandy is really nice and evan when her dad died she still went to work to stay with Mila
  • Shay: Wild girl whom Mila wants to befriend
  • Justin: Son of Mila's doctor
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First Sentence edit see section history

I swim out to them on the murmuring sea.

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Chapters 1-62

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Karen Hesse (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Country: United States
Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 0590897977
Page Count: 181

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