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      The Eyes of the Amaryllis

      by Natalie Babbitt
      Published
      Nov 1977
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      Experience love and loss in this enchanting sea mystery from Natalie Babbitt, The Eyes of the Amaryllis, the basis for the 1982 movie adaption of the same name.

      When the brig Amaryllis was swallowed in a hurricane, the captain and all the crew were swallowed, too. For thirty years the captain's widow, Geneva Reade, has waited, certain that her husband will send her a message from the bottom of the sea. But someone else is waiting, too, and watching her, a man called Seward. Into this haunted situation comes Jenny, the widow's granddaughter. The three of them, Gran, Jenny, and Seward, are drawn into a kind of deadly game with one another and with the sea, a game that only the sea knows how to win.

      The Eyes of the Amaryllis is a 1977 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year.

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      General Fiction

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      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Middle Grade

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      Jan 1979 Bantam ISBN13 9780553150506 ISBN10 0553150502
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      May 1986 Sunburst Books ISBN13 9780374422387 ISBN10 0374422389
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      First Edition Nov 1977 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374322410 ISBN10 0374322414
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      May 1986 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9780808573258 ISBN10 080857325X
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      May 1986 Perfection Learning ISBN13 9780812459395 ISBN10 0812459393
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      Oct 2010 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9781429955171 ISBN10 1429955171
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