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The Wolves and the Mermaids

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 4, 5, 6
Page count: 10

Author

Joan
Aiken

Appeared in

Smoke from Cromwell's Time and Other Stories

Story Summary

A doctor's son disappears on the road that runs between the realms of the mermaids and the wolves only to be delivered back years later after an act of kindness by the doctor.