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Article: Viguie, Debbie. Midnight pearls.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
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- September 1, 2003
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Simon & Schuster, Pulse. 197p. c2003. 0-689-85557-5. $5.99. J
Finneas has a bizarre experience one day while fishing at sea. When he draws up his net, he finds a naked little girl of about four entangled within it, clutching a midnight-blue pearl in her fist. Finneas takes the child home to Mary, his wife, and they name her Pearl, adopting her as their own. Pearl is an unusual looking child with silvery white hair, transparent skin, and unnaturally long legs. She grows up with a fear of the sea and the vague consciousness that a "voice" beckons her back to the waters from whence she came. Strange dreams fill her sleep at night and she is convinced that happiness ...