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Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore - Black American
Retail Price: $8.99
Ages: 05 - 08 Pages: 32
Sukey's new step-pa is a mean, bossy man. Every day Sukey wakes at dawn to work in the garden. All her step-pa ever does is watch her and yell if she so much as stops to fan herself. Sukey's ma calls him Mister Jones. Sukey prefers the name 'Mister Hard-Times.'
Son one day, Sukey runs away to her secret place by the ocean. There, she calls up Mama Jo, a beautiful black mermaid. Mama Jo's got a surprise for Sukey; a magical kingdom beneath the sea without time or pain. But it's also without people. Is it really better than the world above?