Toby lives a lonely life at the seaside hotel where he was abandoned as a baby \- until he finds a pale, thin girl lying on the beach at the water's edge, with a long green tail swaying gently in the shallows. Eliza Flot is a stranded mermaid and she needs Toby's help. He takes to her like a fish to water, and when he meets her noisy parents he practically becomes part of the family. But Toby's new friendship arouses suspicion back at the hotel. Toby and the Flots must come up with a plan to rescue each other!

 

 

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published in 2013 by Chicken House Ltd .

Heather Dyer lives in Wales. She has been a cherry picker, a chambermaid, a teacher, a house painter, a sweet shop assistant - and now, best of all, a writer. The Girl with the Broken Wing is her second children's novel. Peter Bailey has been illustrating books for more than thirty-five years and has worked with many of today's best known authors, including Philip Pullman, Allan Ahlberg, Michael Morpurgo and Joan Aiken. He lives near Liverpool with his wife, Sian, who is also an illustrator.