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The selchie's seed

by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim · 1975

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Unknowingly descended from a line of seal folk, fifteen-year-old Marian living on a remote North Sea island finds herself spellbound by a mysterious white whale.

Genre
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Audience
childrens
Length
short · 82 pages

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