Of salt and shore
2020
Book
Every night Lampie, the lighthouse keeper's daughter lights the lantern which warns the ships away from the rocks, but when the light goes out one night, a ship is wrecked and Lampie is sent to the Admiral's Black House in disgrace--there she finds and befriends the Admiral's son, who was born with a tail, and together they are pulled into an adventure of mermen and pirates, and secret identities long concealed but soon to be revealed.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781623543440
- 9781623542306
Edition: First US edition.
Description: 352 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Target Audience Note: Ages 10 and up. Charlesbridge.
Other Title: Lampje. English
Notes:
- Originally published as: Lampje by Em. Querido's Uitgeverij, Amsterdam, ©2017.
- Also published in English as: Lampie and the Children of the Sea.
- First published in English by Pushkin Press in 2019.
LCCN: 2020000792
Control Number: 3216717
Publisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2020.Subjects:
- Adventure stories.
- Father and child -- Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
- Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
- Lighthouse keepers -- Juvenile fiction.
- Mermen -- Juvenile fiction.
- Pirates -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Action and adventure fiction.
Other Authors: Watkinson, Laura, translator.