Does anyone know this book?

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in about 4th grade (im now in 9th) i read this mermaid book i thought it was called indigo but i looked that up and something by alice hoffman keeps coming up 

its about this girl whose father goes missing during a storm while out on his boat, her dog at one pint jumps in the water she goes after him and somehow finds mermids and i remember in the end kinda one of the mermaids was a singing a song her dad always used to sing to her and it gives the hint that hes a mermaid now and in the end she has to choose between the water and the land 

i remember the cover having a mermaid swimming downward and it was all blue this was a great book and i would really like to know what it is

tiandron · Accepted Answer

The Ingo series by Helen Dunmore
"I wish I was away in Ingo, Far across the sea, Sailing over the deepest waters, Where love nor care can trouble me... 
When the sea called Sapphy's father, he vanished from her life. When the sea called to her brother, he started to disappear for hours. And now the sea is calling Sapphy and she feels it pulling more strongly than shes ever felt in her life"

"Sapphire and her brother Connor have lost their father to the sea. Did he drown? Did he run away with another woman? As the novel opens, Sapphire’s father tells her the story of the Mermaid of Zennor while they look at a carving of the mermaid in Zennor Church in Cornwall. Many years ago, the mermaid fell in love with Mathew Trewhella, and he chose to abandon his earthly life to live with her in the Mer kingdom of Ingo. Mathew Trewhella is also her father’s name..."
http://curledupkids.com/ingodunm.htm

Brino · Answer

It kind of sounds like The Tail of Emily Windsnap. I haven't read it in a while, but her father is held in a mermaid prison or something.

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