Orysia Dawydiak

Kira's Secret Orysia Dawydiak

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.
   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 House of Bears garnered positive reviews, is making her first foray into writing for this age group.