May

Resource Information

The work May represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Peabody Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

May

Statement of responsibility

Kathryn Lasky

Creator

• Lasky, Kathryn
• trueLasky, Kathryn

Subject

• Lighthouses -- Fiction
• Mermaids -- Fiction
• true1890s -- 1890 -- 1899
• Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Islands -- Fiction
• Identity -- Fiction
• trueSmall towns -- Maine
• Authors -- Indiana
• trueMaine -- History -- 19th century
• trueFifteen-year-old girls
• trueMermaids
• trueTeenage boy/girl relations
• trueIndependence (Personal quality)
• trueIdentity (Psychology)
• trueTeenage girls
• trueLighthouses
• trueHistorical fantasy
• trueIslands -- Maine

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHistorical fantasy

Language

eng

Summary

In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares

Member of

• trueDaughters of the sea
• Daughters of the sea, 02

Tone

• trueStrong sense of place

Writing style

• trueRichly detailed

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 770
• 012 up

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.L3274

LC item number

May 2011

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

770

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 8

Series statement

Daughters of the sea

Series volume

bk. 2

Target audience

pre adolescent