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.

Author Biography

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.