Compare Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert D. San Souci, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

In a romantic folktale drawn from various African-American traditions, a beautiful brown-skinned, black-eyed mermaid saves a poor, unhappy girl. Sukey's step-pa's a bossy do-nothing man who drinks and works her too hard. When she cries for help, a mermaid hears her and takes her below the sea to a gentle place without time or pain. But Sukey longs to return to the world.-Booklist. Full color | Sukey and the Mermaid by Robert D. San Souci, Paperback | Indigo Chapters