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Summary: Best Mermaid Book I've read !
Review: This book is great. Even my 4 year old sister liked it. I'm in 2nd grade and it is so easy to read! It keeps you interested throughout the whole book. You want to read it in one day!
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Summary: terrible, awkward, & stupid
Review: This book is not worth your time or money. The Book really is boring and ends by (obviously) the mermaid geting back to the water, and, (duh) and the guy goes with her. There was basically no plot, and I do not see how this book proves the friendship thing.
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Summary: A Horrible Terrible Book
Review: This book really stunk. The idea is good; two girls, one is moving away, everything is changing, the girls find a mermaid in the swimming pool, there is romance, the mermaid goes back, the girl moves, the end. That's why I gave it two stars instead of one. But of course, the glitch. the print is huge. The wording is boring. There is no reason to buy this book unless you are a 6 year old girl that is obsessed with fantasy.
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Summary: Changing Like the Sea
Review: This is a beauty, a hardcover only 5"x7" with 105 small pages of text, an irredescent sea-blue dustjacket featuring a picture of a swimming mermaid. It would make a lovely gift. This book is intended for pre-teen and teenaged girls but anyone with a romantic heart will enjoy it. It is about dreading change, facing change, and coping with change and at the same time it is about the need for change. Two best friends who have been together all their lives and seen each other through difficult changes in their family dynamics like death and divorce are facing another huge change but this time they'll have to face it separately. Claire is moving away and Hailey has to stay behind and to top it off the beach club where they've wiled away every summer has crumbled into decay and is being demolished. Their friend Raymond who is facing changes of his own and a naive little mermaid who demands change help the girls to ride the waves and do some growing in the process. There are nice little flourishes of magic and romance and melancholy throughout. It's a sweet story.
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Summary: Changing Like the Sea
Review: This is a beauty, a hardcover only 5"x7" with 105 small pages of text, an irredescent sea-blue dustjacket featuring a picture of a swimming mermaid. It would make a lovely gift. This book is intended for pre-teen and teenaged girls but anyone with a romantic heart will enjoy it. It is about dreading change, facing change, and coping with change and at the same time it is about the need for change. Two best friends who have been together all their lives and seen each other through difficult changes in their family dynamics like death and divorce are facing another huge change but this time they'll have to face it separately. Claire is moving away and Hailey has to stay behind and to top it off the beach club where they've wiled away every summer has crumbled into decay and is being demolished. Their friend Raymond who is facing changes of his own and a naive little mermaid who demands change help the girls to ride the waves and do some growing in the process. There are nice little flourishes of magic and romance and melancholy throughout. It's a sweet story.
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Summary: Great Storytelling
Review: This is a very good story of the last adventure between two friends. An event that will bond them together forever. Alice Hoffman is a great story teller who has crafted a magical tale of youth and fantasy.It is a very quick read for adults and definately aimed at the younger crowd but hits it mark with great style.
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Summary: The Best Book I Ever Read
Review: This is great story of adventure,friendship,and magic. It is about two best friends(Haliey & Claire)spending their last summer together at the Capri Beachclub. One night a monstrous storm sweaps a masteariuse something in the pool. Early the next morning they head to capri for a day in the at the abandent beach club and find that there is now a sign at the pool that says no swimming and get suspicious why and decide to go for a little swim but when Hailey dives is she sees something special a MERMAID.Soon they meet this mermaid and find that she is selfubobzored and sellfish and soon sees Raymond the who works at the snack bar and as soon as she sees him falls in love and refuses to leave the pool untill she meets him and so the girls set up a date saying that she is a cousin from far away. The night she goes on a date the girls put her in a brillyant blue dress and Raymond finds her eligant but soon has to leave because the mermiad needs water. The next day they go to the last day party has more people than all summer and they to sneak the mermaid out of the pool. Will they do it? Will the mermaid survive? Find out and read it.
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Summary: Fairy tales and happy endings.
Review: This slender volume satisfies as only Hoffman can provide. In her usual quirky style, she returns to her familiar territory of exploring the mythic within the mundane. This story, while perhaps aimed at a younger audience, will not fail to captivate new readers and fans as well. Honestly, who could pass up a 105-page tale of a mermaid in the swimming pool of someplace called the Capri Beach Club? Just too delectable. But an entirely justified temptation!
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Summary: Aquamarine...
Review: Well, this book would probably be great for a little 10-year-old, but when I picked up the book I kinda expected more. It was more like... well, it was pretty boring in my opinion. Aquamarine was a really rude mermaid from the start of the book and from the way they described Raymond, I expected him to not like her. Oh well, I'll just go back to reading my L.J. Smith books.
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Summary: Meh?
Review: While "Aquamarine" is a gorgeous little book, I wasn't exactly happy with it. First of all, it's so short! It really isn't a novel, just a long short story. It is definitely geared towards younger readers (7-10 years) and I felt a bit -- insulted? -- at parts because Hoffman was so *simple* in her descriptions and characterizations. The book itself --or at least the hardcover version-- is very cool, with a waterproof cover and that eerie photograph on the slipcover. The watercolor illustrations fit the mood of the book, but again are too simple for my liking. If you really want to read this, I suggest checking it out at a library first. I don't regret buying my copy, but I was a bit disapointed. A great gift book for younger kids who enjoy stories of merfolk and the like, and it looks so cute on a bookshelf. An okay book for an afternoon at the beach.
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