Aquamarine
By (Author) Alice Hoffman
Scholastic Australia
Titles Supplied/Distributed by Scholastic Australi
31st March 2002
Australia
Children
Fiction
813.54
Paperback
105
Width 133mm, Height 203mm, Spine 6mm
113g
Best friends Hailey and Claire are spending their last summer together when they discover a mysterious and beautiful creature at the bottom of a murky pool, a sharp-tongued mermaid named Aquamarine who has left her home to search for love on land. As the mermaid begins to fade in the August sun, a rescue must begin.
"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
Alice Hoffman is the highly acclaimed author of over twenty novels for readers of all ages, including Illumination Night, Seventh Heaven, Practical Magic, Here on Earth, The Foretelling, Incantation, and, most recently, The Story Sisters and The Red Garden. Her previous novels for Scholastic Press are Aquamarine, which was made into a major motion picture, Indigo, and Green Angel, which Publishers Weekly, in a boxed, starred review, called "achingly lovely." She lives with her family outside of Boston. Visit her at www.alicehoffman.com.