Author: Sana Rafi
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593327624
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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A young girl celebrates the experience of wearing a burkini for the first time in this lyrical and heartwarming picture book that casts a fresh light on timeless summer activities, and celebrates cultural traditions and intergenerational bonds. Summer is here and Heba is so excited to wear her new, yellow burkini to the community pool for the first time! She can't wait to look like the other mermaid girls in her family and sparkle like the sun. But when Heba arrives at the pool and her friends start asking her questions about her new special swimsuit, she feels like she's standing out too much. Suddenly her burkini seems like a bad idea. Luckily Mama helps Heba to find strength in the mermaid girls who came before her. Feeling more connected to the women of her family, Heba is ready to show her friends that she can do all the same things that they can do—handstands, summersaults, and dives off the diving board—even while wearing her yellow burkini.
Author: Virginia Hankins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1612437427
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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The secret to happiness is to be yourself. Unless you can be a mermaid. Then be a mermaid! If you’re ready to trade legs for fins, Be a Real-Life Mermaid shows how to shell-ebrate your inner sea siren. Professional mermaid Virginia Hankins teaches you how to be a stylish aqua-babe and embody the confidence of a water goddess. Part craft book, part manifesto with a splash of fun, this book has everything needed to complete your mermaid transformation, including: • A siren alter ego • Fierce makeup looks • A gorgeous mer-crown • Seaside decor • Glamorous aquatic accessories
Author: Teresa Bruce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984107391
Category : Dance teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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THE OTHER MOTHER, a 416-page hardcover "rememoir," is the true story of a TV reporter and the deep bond she forges with a woman four times her age, a bond that changes her life forever... Byrne and Duncan Miller do not blend into the beautiful background that is Beaufort, South Carolina. She is an 82-year-old modern dance pioneer from Manhattan who started out on the burlesque stage during the Great Depression. He is a pipe-smoking, frustrated novelist and one of the original Mad Men of Madison Avenue. The author stumbles onto the story of their love and quickly becomes one of Byrne's "collected daughters." Their friendship is a dance between love and madness, loyalty and truth, and speaks to anyone who has ever needed and cherished the love of an "Other Mother." Bruce shares the wisdom of Byrne's life through cheeky quotes called "Womenisms," such as, "Every woman should have at least one affair. It builds confidence."
Author: Helene Boudreau
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 140226447X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Normal is Never Coming Back Jade is totally confused. As in, "will this be a leg-day or a tail-day?" kind of confused. Even worse, it's been forever since her first kiss with Luke and now—nothing. Not even a text message. Sigh. But Jade doesn't have time to figure out the weirdness of boys and how to use her shiny new tail. (Seriously, being a mermaid should come with a handbook.) She has to come up with a plan to get her missing mermaid mom back on dry land. The only problem is...Jade is afraid of the ocean. But even aqua-phobic mer-girls have to take the plunge sometime... Praise for Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings: "Bravo to Hélène Boudreau for hitting the bull's-eye with a fresh, affectionate, watery twist on the classic coming-of-age-story."—New York Journal of Books "The author keeps suspense high...while tapping straight into young teens' angst about friends, enemies, and boys."—Kirkus Reviews
Author: Rose Raleigh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781092906708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Cute birthday gift journal for writing and drawing with a soft mermaid cover and mermaid themed pages inside the book. Pages alternate between lined for writing and blank with a frame for drawing with more mermaids decorating each lined page. 7" x 10" white paper Soft glossy cover 120 pages
Author: Liz Kessler
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763652407
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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A young girl learns she’s half mermaid and plunges into a scheme to reunite with her father in this entrancing, satisfying tale that beckons readers far below the waves. For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep Emily away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery — about her own identity, the mysterious father she’s never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water’s surface. With a sure sense of suspense and richly imaginative details, first-time author Liz Kessler lures us into a glorious undersea world where mermaids study shipwrecks at school and Neptune rules with an iron trident — an enchanting fantasy about family secrets, loyal friendship, and the convention-defying power of love.
Author: Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536215899
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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A desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial daughter find a connection on the high seas in a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic. Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. The brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don't trust, don't stick out, don't feel. When the pirates prepare to sell their unsuspecting passengers into slavery, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is en route to a dreaded arranged marriage with her own casket in tow. The pair set into motion a wild escape that will free a captured mermaid (coveted for her blood, which causes men to have visions and lose memories) and involve the mysterious Pirate Supreme, an opportunistic witch, and the all-encompassing Sea itself.
Author: Samantha Hunt
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1941040969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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National Bestseller "The Seas took me back to how I felt as a kid, when you’re newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell..." ?Maggie Nelson (from the Introduction) A Most Anticipated Book of Summer at BuzzFeed, NYLON, and more. Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She’s often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid. True to myth, she finds herself in hard love with a land-bound man, an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior.The mesmerizing, fevered coming-of-age tale that follows will land her in jail. Her otherworldly escape will become the stuff of legend. With the inventive brilliance and psychological insight that have earned her international acclaim, Samantha Hunt pulls readers into an undertow of impossible love and intoxication, blurring the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, sanity and madness.
Author: Holly Hatam
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0525707174
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Discover what makes mermaids so magical and become a true believer with this sparkly Mythical Creatures Are Real board book! Gemstone and sparkles and coral, oh my! That's what mermaids are made of! But did you also know that mermaids are vegetarian, or that they can control the weather on the seas? Mermaid lovers will be tickled to learn all sorts of "facts" about these beloved beings in #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator Holly Hatam's latest Mythical Creatures Are Real board book. Encourage your little one's imagination with peeks into other whimsical worlds! Look for Holly's Unicorns Are Real, Dragons Are Real, and Fairies Are Real, too!
Author: Peter Raymundo
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545918170
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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For fans of The Dork Diaries comes a new and heavily illustrated chapter book series about a fiery third grade mermaid who thinks she wants to be where the shimmery Sirens are! Cora is a small mermaid with a BIG personality. But like so many mermaids in the third grade, she is struggling to truly be herself. She wants to be like the Singing Sirens, the most glamorous swim team in the sea. Unfortunately, an annoying road--er, seablock--keep getting in her way.When Cora fails her spelling test, her coach says she can’t be on the team unless she gets an A on the next one!Can Cora conquer her spelling test, make the swim team, AND stay true to herself at the same time?
