5/24/2023 0 Comments Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman![]() ![]() ![]() She's is no romantic forsaken damsel: she's a rude, rebellious teenager, as needy as those who help her. Of course, in helping the stranger, the girls transform themselves and face the changes in their lives. 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. ![]() ![]() Then they find a beautiful mermaid, Aquamarine, huddled in the beach pool. They don't want anything to change, but as the searing 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. Her first book for middle-graders is about 12-year-old girls, Hailey and Claire, who have been neighbors and best friends forever. "Hoffman creates an apt metaphor for that twilight time between childhood and adolescence when magic still seems possible and friendships run deep and true." - Publishers Weekly "Hoffman's spare words reveal the magic and the gritty realism in daily life." - Booklist, Teens enjoy many of Hoffman's adult novels, which often focus on young women. ![]()
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