Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman -2001- 106 Pages
A New York Times Best Seller- produced as a Major Movie in 2006
Aquamarine, published by Scholastic Press, is a middle school book for grades 4 to 7.
The more I read of the work of Alice Hoffman the happier I am to realize I still have not yet read 30 or so of her novels.
Aquamarine is about two 12-year-old girls, Hailey and Claire, who have been neighbors and best friends forever. Sadly as the summer draws to a close, Claire has to move to Florida, and the bulldozers are closing in on the girls' beloved hangout near the ocean. Then they find a beautiful mermaid, Aquamarine, huddled in the beach pool. They send her home to her ocean sisters, but first they help her find love and adventure with the handsome guy who works in the snack bar. Of course, in helping the stranger, the girls transform themselves and face the changes in their lives. Aquamarine, the mermaid is no romantic forsaken damsel: she's a rude, rebellious teenager, as needy as those who help her, spoiled by her six older sisters who want her back in the ocean. Aquamarine cannot survive out of the water too long.
I found this brief work a lot of fun. (Our three daughters were for a couple of years all simultaneously teenagers so I can relate!)
I am currently reading Ice Queen.
Mel Ulm
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