Kate Sachs

It's easier to sort other people's problems if you don't have any of your own. But when you have to take on a false identity; deal with nat'n'Matt; and enter a crazy cookery competition - well everything begins to be very complicated.

Sapphire, Conor and their Mer friends Faro and Elvira are ready to make the crossing of Ingo - a dangerous journey that only the strongest young Mer are called upon to make. Ervys and his new recruits, the sharks, are determined that Sapphire and Conor must be stopped - dead or alive.

A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air and Ingo, and now, deep in the ocean, a monster is stirring. Sapphy must return to the deep with the help of her friend the whale to face this terrifying creature, but her brother Conor and Mer friend Faro will not let her go alone!

A spellbinding magical adventure. Master storyteller Helen Dunmore writes the story of Sapphire and her brother Conor, and their discovery of INGO, a powerful and exciting world under the sea.

You'll find the mermaid of Zennor inside Zennor church. She fell in love with a human, but she was a Mer creature and so she couldn't come to live with him up in the dry air. She swam up the stream to hear him sing, then one day he swam down it and was never seen again. He became one of the Mer people.

Sapphire's father told her that story when she was little. When he is lost at sea she can't help but think of that old myth; she's convinced he's still alive.

The following summer her brother Conor keeps disappearing for hours on end. She goes to the cove to find him, but instead meets Faro, an enigmatic and intriguing Merman. He takes her to Ingo and introduces her to a world she never knew existed. She must let go of all her Air thoughts and embrace the sea and all things Mer.

After her first visit she is entranced - merely the sound of running water makes her yearn to be in Ingo once more. Ingo blood runs strongly in Sapphy and Conor fears she will leave the Air world for good. He pleads with her to ignore her craving for the sea and stay safely in their cottage up on the cliff.

But not only is Sapphy intoxicated by the Mer world, she longs to see her father once more. And she's sure she can hear him singing across the water.
"I wish I was away in Ingo. Far across the briny sea."

Morveren lives with her parents and twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall - an island that in the long distant past was devastated by a tidal wave…only some of those taken by the sea may not have been lost at all. Morveren's life changes when she finds a beautiful teenage boy in a rock pool after a storm.

Sapphire and Conor can't forget their adventures in Ingo, the mysterious world beneath the sea. They long to see their Mer friends and swim with the dolphins once more but a crisis is brewing far below the ocean's surface where the wisest of the Mer guards the tide knot.

Trixie Tempest, aged ten and three-quarters, loves horses, football and music. She’s also a passionate vegetarian and wants to save the world!

Who, or what, is the Ghost of St Aubergine’s Primary School and what does it want? What happened to Trixie’s trumpet? Why is the Save the World with a Song Concert on the same day as an important meeting and who is the old man following her?

Trixie goes on a half-term course on witchcraft at Conundrums Academy, which to her disgust is not Hogwarts! There she magics up an ancient spell to find out the truth about the missing silver cup that Dad won when he was at the same school.