What would you do if you found out you were a mermaid? This middle-grade novel is the story of a young girl who lives on Canada’s Atlantic Coast.<br> Despite her adoptive parents’ attempts to keep her from the sea, Kira discovers she is a mermaid. When she’s twelve, she decides to go back to the sea to find her real parents—or at least learn what happened to them. Dawydiak, whose adult novel <i>House of Bears</i> garnered positive reviews, is making her first foray into writing for this age group.<br>