Song of the Merrows

The Ocean is full of terrifying tales. One boy will discover they are all true. Song of the Merrows is a tense, romantic, and inspiring romp through mermaid myth and lore.

MERMAIDS ARE FRIGHTENING--AND REAL. And they are at war, a conflict that threatens even the land. This is what teenager Conor Oison Mortgan is only now learning. Even worse, Conor begins to discover how his own family is more intimately involved in the war than he could have imagined. However, through his friendship with a young Merrow girl, he may be the key to stopping a plot to bring the war to the land. Song of the Merrows is a tense, romantic, and inspiring romp through mermaid myth and lore.

Mike Mennard is an award-winning kids’ recording artist, a teacher, an author, a dad, and a husband—not necessarily in that order. He is an associate professor of English and communication at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. Mike recently released his first collection of children’s poems entitled The Left-sock Tree. He has produced six kids’ recordings, the most recent being It’s a Pirate’s World and We’ve Got it All in Nebraska. His musical comedy, That’s What Makes Them Pirates, debuted in 2010. In 2011, the governor of Nebraska proclaimed Mike an “Admiral in the Navy of the Great State of Nebraska”—the state’s highest honor.