Not Quite a Mermaid: Mermaid Friends

by Linda Chapman (Author)

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  2006

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  Electra and her school friends are off on an overnight trip to Craggy island. When they arrive, Electra sees some of the older mermaids looking at her and giggling and she is upset to discover they're laughing at the fact that she has legs instead of a tail! The girls are even meaner later on when they tell Electra and her friends that the island caves, they plan to have a midnight feast in, are haunted.The next day the older mermaids swim off to the rocks where a special moss grows that will make their hair shine. But later on, Electra sees that the girls have got stranded on the rocks and their tails are burning in the sun! Even though their teacher told them not to approach the rocks, Electra decides to go and help the girls as she is the only one who can because of her legs!The older girls are so grateful that they show Electra and her friends an underwater grotto, lit up by mermaid fire with tiny pink jellyfish and seahorses where they all have the best midnight feast ever!

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  2005

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  You don't need a tail to make a splash!Elecktra is a human mermaid - a mermaid with legs instead of a tail. Abandoned as a tiny baby, she was found and adopted by the merpeople of Mermaid Island, who gave her sea-powder so that she could live and breathe underwater. Now aged nine, Elecktra's desire for adventure is always getting her into trouble!When Elektra's class learn how to dive down and collect magic mermaid fire, Elektra is keen to get more than everybody else! But to do this, she will have to swim away from the safety of the reef and deep deep down to the bottom of the dark and scary sea bed. When Elektra and her dolphin friend Splash dive down, they not only find mermaid fire but a whole of danger as well!