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Title: Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0-439-09864-5 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (30 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Aquamarine
Comment: Aquamarine is a very good book.It makes the reader want more. It is a very short book. It is about these two best friends Hailey and Claire. They are both twelve years old and lived next door as long as they rember. They went to this club which was called the Capri Beach Club. That would be the last summer there because Claire would soon be moving to Florida.
The club would be torn down to so that was their last time there. One day there was a storm and the club was a mess. There was seaweed and jellyfish in the pool the pool was also fogy. Hailey saw something in the deep water she couldn't see it clearly. Then she saw a tail, and she saw a mermaid. When Aquamarine surfaced Her voice was a cool and fresh as bubbles rising from the ocean. Her hair was pail and silvery and her nails were shimmering blue and she had webbing in between each finger like webbing that u would find on a duck. Aquamarine has a crush on Raymond the guy those woks at the snack bar. The girls found that any mermaid out of the sea for seven days she would die and turn in to dust. She that she wouldn't go until she got to meet Raymond. So one day the girls had a plan. Claire had a wheel chair and Hailey had old clothes that might fit Aquamarine. They took Aquamarine to dinner with Raymond. The next day they had a party for the club because they were going to tare it down the next day. Aquamarine was getting pail and dusty so they had to take her back into the ocean or poof she would be gone forever. They let her go and they were very sad because they don't know when they will see her again. Then Claire would be moving to and they wouldn't be able to see each other for a while.
Rating: 4
Summary: A shimmering jewel
Comment: This "tail" of friendship feels of young, "summer-camp" bittersweetness. Main characters Hailey and Claire, 12-year-old best friends, are spending their last summer together at the beach, commiserating and dreading the fact that Claire will be moving at summer's end. A particularly violent summer storm deposits Aquamarine, a fiesty mermaid, into the path of the girls. Aquamarine, though not your stereotypical damsel-in-distress, is in dire need of help. Hailey and Claire, drawing strength from each other, devise a plan to save her. As they work together for the sake of another, Hailey and Claire gradually come to terms with the inevitable.
As a parent, teacher, and school library media specialist, I think middle school girls will delight in this story, especially those younger than twelve years of age. The physical aspects of the book set the tone even before you turn a page -- the sparkling ocean-hue of the dust jacket and the beautiful cover art of shimmering water, pool-like tiles, under-sea bubbles, water-filtered sunlight, and the ethereal mermaid.
Rating: 3
Summary: My Comment
Comment: Aquamarine was a fun, enjoyable and easy book to read. I was fond of Claire's and Hailey's friendship. It was intresting how the two of them connected and yet were so different. It was sad that Corpi (the beach park)was going to be torn down. With that Claire and Hailey were the only customers. The way Aquamarine was found was very unique. And it is a good thing she made it to the ocean. The ending has not much of a twist but wants you to read more, even though the book has ended.
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Title: Indigo by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0439256356 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Green Angel by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0439443849 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Horsefly by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0786803673 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0385507607 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman ISBN: 0425183262 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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