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"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
- Charles de Montesquieu
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ZIN Product Number: 10001358
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 32 pages
Edition: 1st American ed
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
ISBN: 0027781410
Release Date: Jan 9, 1998
Age Range: 5 to 8
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"Sukey's step-pa's a bossy do-nothing man who drinks and works her toohard. When she cries for help, a mermaid hears her and takes her below the sea to a gentle place without time or pain. But Sukey longs to return to the world." (Booklist) "Grades one to four." (SLJ)
| | | | From The Publisher
Sukey's new step-pa is a mean, bossy man. Every day Sukey wakes at dawn to work in the garden. All her step-pa ever does is watch her and yell if she so much as stops to fan herself. Sukey's ma calls him Mister Jones. Sukey prefers the name "Mister Hard-Times."
Son one day, Sukey runs away to her secret place by the ocean. There, she calls up Mama Jo, a beautiful black mermaid. Mama Jo's got a surprise for Sukey; a magical kingdom beneath the sea without time or pain. But it's also without people. Is it really better than the world above?
| | | | Annotation
Sukey is a hardworking daughter of poor South Carolina Islanders. One day she escapes to the beach to hide from her stepfather's scoldings. There she unwittingly calls up Mama Jo, a beautiful brown-skinned, black-eyed mermaid, who gives Sukey a gold coin to present to her parents so they won't be mad at her. The coin sets in motion a richly textured tale of greed, loyalty and the power of love. Full-color illustrations. 1993 Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
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This is a wounderful book for black history month
-- Monica, A 5th grade student at Bancroft, March 4, 2002
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