Maybe a Mermaid by Josephine Cameron
on March 26th 2019
ISBN: 0374306427
Pages: 288
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Maybe a Mermaid

 

Anthoni and her mother are always on the move, from one town to another, as her mother attempts to sell Beauty and the Bee make-up products and recruit other “worker bees”.  Now they have landed at a run-down resort in Wisconsin by a lake.  What Anthoni is always searching for is a “forever friend” and maybe Maddy will be the one.  What isn’t always evident to Anthoni is that your best friends aren’t always who you plan for them to be but, rather, are those who will attempt to be a mermaid and swim underwater or who will go in the water with an arm cast on, if that’s what is needed.  There are many lists of goals and positive thoughts throughout which, in the case of the “True Blue Friend Criteria,” change as Anthoni does, too.  There are mentions of Vaudeville which may be of interest to some.  This book is for students in grades 5-8.

 

Reviewed by Ellen Spring, Oceanside High School, Rockland