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Real Mermaids Don't Need High Heels

Name: Real Mermaids Don't Need High Heels
Author: Helene Boudreau
ISBN: 9781402264580

by Helene Boudreau

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Overview

Just Your Average Teenage Mer-Girl

The only thing that terrifies Jade more than the ocean is dancing at the Fall Formal. Because Jade has two left feet—er, flippers. Who knew being a high school freshman is even more awkward than being a plus-size aqua-phobic mer-girl? At least her only drama is of the human variety...

Or not.

The Mermish Council has just declared that all land-dwelling mers but return to the ocean. Pronto. But there's no way Jade is going to let her mom, or Luke, her...boyfriend? mer-guy-friend?, disappear into the deep, dark ocean. Again. After all, a girl's got to have a date to her first dance.

If Jade can stop mer-mageddon, finding a plus-size dress that doesn't look like a shower curtain should be a piece of cake.

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 a classic, coming-of-age story."—New York Journal of Books

"The author keeps the suspense high...while tapping straight into young teens' angst about friends, enemies, and boys."—Kirkus Reviews

About the Author, Helene Boudreau

HÉLÈNE BOUDREAU believes mermaids are just as plausible as giant squids, flying fish or electric eels. She now writes fiction and non-fiction for kids from her land-locked home in Ontario, Canada. Her first book of this series, Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings, was a 2011 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award finalist. www.heleneboudreau.com

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Kirkus Reviews

The adventures of a part-time mermaid continue with more comedy and easy but suspenseful action. Jade has triumphantly escaped her hated middle school and entered glorious high school, where she hopes finally to have a normal teenage life. She already has a boyfriend of sorts, Luke, although she's too shy to ask him to the upcoming girls'-choice dance. She's excited to be in high school and determined to do better academically than she did in middle school. However, it turns out that Jade isn't the only part-time merperson in her town of Port Toulouse. A new girl, Serena, a refugee from the "freshies"--merpeople imprisoned in the nearby lake--will be attending school, and Jade's assigned to team up with her and protect her. Actually, Port Toulouse seems to be riddled with secret merpeople, and danger looms for them all at the hands of the scheming Mermish Council. Boudreau keeps tone and action light as foam, solving conundrums with happy coincidences. An underwater hockey game adds spice, as do some friendship difficulties, also easily solved. Mermish "speech," which humans can't hear, is printed in italics. Best of all, it's great to have a plus-sized heroine--with a boyfriend! Frothy fun. (Paranormal adventure. 9-13)