Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry

Fiona McConville is a child of the Western Isles, living on the Scottish mainland. City life doesn't suit Fiona and at age ten she is sent back to her beloved isles to live with her grandparents. There she learns more about her mother's strange ways with the seals and seabirds; hears stories of the selkies, mythological creatures that are half seal and half human; and wonders about her baby brother, Jamie, who disappeared long ago but whom fishermen claim to have seen. Fiona is determined to find Jamie and enlists her cousin Rory to help. When her grandparents are suddenly threatened with eviction, Fiona and Rory go into action. Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry is a magical story of the power of place and family history, interwoven with Scottish folklore. Rosalie K. Fry's novel, which was the basis for John Sayles's classic 1994 film The Secret of Roan Inish, is back in print for the first time in decades.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 10/24/2017
ISBN: 9781681371665
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.50d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 07/01/2017 pg. 72
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2017 pg. 137
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average