The Fish in Room 11

by Peter Bailey (Illustrator), Heather Dyer (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $3.29

  Toby lives a lonely life in his pyjamas at the seaside hotel where he was abandoned as a baby - until the day he's sent down to the beach to look for Cook's lost laundry. Instead, he finds a pale, thin girl, lying at the water's edge with a long green tail swaying gently in the shallows. Eliza Flot is a stranded mermaid and she needs his help. Toby 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. If only Toby and the Flots can come up with a plan to rescue each other.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $3.29

  Everyone agrees --- there's something fishy about the Flots! Toby can't remember a time he didn't live at the seaside hotel. Left there as a small baby, he's grown up without a lot of friends. So when he meets Eliza Flot down by the pier, he takes to her, well, like a fish to water. And when he meets her parents, that tips the scales even more. He practically becomes part of the family. So what if they're mermaids? But Toby's friendship with Eliza arouses suspicion back at the hotel, and soon he has to hatch a plan to keep the Flot's identity a secret. That's when he comes up with the ingenious idea to disguise them as hotel guests, with unexpected - and hilarious - results. From talented newcomer Heather Dyer comes a big-hearted story that younger readers are sure to fall for hook, line, and sinker.