Mermaid tales. Trouble at Trident Academy

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Title:

Mermaid tales. Trouble at Trident Academy

Author:

Dadey, Debbie, author.

Avakyan, Tatevik, 1983- illustrator.

Series:

Mermaid tales ;

Series Number:

Summary:

Mermaids Shelly and Echo are excited to begin third grade at the prestigious Trident Academy, but snooty Pearl, jokester Rocky, brilliant Kiki, grumpy Mr. Fangtooth, and an argument over their first project challenge the best friends. Includes facts about marine plants and animals and words to the Mermaid Tales Song.

Audience:

Ages 6-9.

Edition:

1st Aladdin pbk. ed.

Physical Description:

90 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.

Subject Term:

Schools -- Juvenile fiction.

Mermaids -- Juvenile fiction.

Best friends -- Juvenile fiction.

Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Avakyan, Tatevik, 1983-

Publisher:

Aladdin,

Publication Date:

2012

ISBN:

9781442429802

Publication Information:

New York : Aladdin, 2012.

Call Number:

J DADEY

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Summary

In this start to a new series starring Shelly the mermaid, a classroom conflict is no fun--even when school is 20,000 leagues under the sea.

It's MerGirl Shelly Siren's first day at a new school, and she is nervous from the tip of her head to the end of her sparkling mermaid tail. How will she ever fit in at the prestigious Trident Academy? Everyone there is so smart and so pretty and so rich. At least she and her best friend, Echo, are in the same class, but so is Pearl, a spoiled know-it-all who only wants to make trouble for Shelly; Rocky, a MerBoy who loves to tease everyo≠ and Kiki, a shy MerGirl who's new to Trident City.
At first Shelly and Echo have lots of fun: eating lunch together, trying to make grumpy Mr. Fangtooth smile, and joining after-school clubs. But when Shelly and Echo have an argument about their very first school assignment, Pearl gets involved and makes matters worse. Will Shelly and Echo fix their friendship?

Author Notes

Debbie Dadey was born on May 18, 1959 in Kentucky. Prior to pursuing a full-time writing career, she was head librarian at an elementary school.

She is known for co-authoring the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series. Her co-author Marcia Thornton Jones was a teacher at the same elementary school when they started writing together. The first title they wrote together was Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots and from this emerged The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series.

Even though they no longer live near each other they are still collaborating on titles. They are also authors of several series including The Triplet Trouble series, the Bailey City Monsters series, and Keyholders series.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Excerpts

Trident Academy I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!" ECHO SAID. "IT'S finally happening." Shelly took a small sip of her seaweed juice before pushing a lock of red hair from her face. Usually she didn't care if her hair stuck straight up, but today was special. "We're so lucky to get an invitation to Trident Academy. I didn't think it would happen to me." Echo and Shelly both lived in Trident City, not far from the famous Trident Academy. They had been friends since they'd played together in the small-fry area of MerPark. The eight-year-old mermaids were celebrating their first day of school with breakfast at the Big Rock CafÉ, a favorite hangout. The place was packed with students proudly wearing their Trident Academy sashes. The two mergirls didn't see a third mergirl swimming up behind them. Her name was Pearl. Echo and Shelly usually tried to avoid the bossy mergirl from their neighborhood. "Oh my Neptune!" Pearl snapped when she saw Shelly. "I can't believe you , of all merpeople, got into Trident." Usually only very wealthy or extremely smart students were accepted. Pearl was rich. Echo was a quick learner. Shelly was neither, but she knew more about ocean animals than both of them put together. Echo came to her friend's defense. "Of course Shelly got into Trident. She is very talented." "At what ?" Pearl asked. "Digging for crabs?" Shelly glanced at her dirty fingernails and immediately hid them under her blue tail fin. "At least I know how to hunt crabs. I bet you'd starve to death if you had to do something for yourself." Pearl flipped her blond hair, stuck her pointy nose up in the water, and said, "I know how to do plenty of things." "Name one," Shelly said. "How to be on time for school, for starters," she said. Pearl spun around and flicked her gold tail, knocking seaweed juice all over Shelly's new Trident sash! Splash! Pearl giggled and swam off toward school. "Oh no!" Shelly squealed, dabbing green juice off the gold-and-blue sash. "She did that on purpose!" Echo glared after Pearl before helping her friend wipe the sash. "It's fine now. You can hardly see it," Echo said. That wasn't exactly true--there was definitely a green blob on Shelly's sash. "We'd better get going," Echo said, adjusting the glittering plankton bow in her dark curly hair. "We don't want to be late on our first day." Shelly groaned. She wasn't quite so excited now. "If Trident Academy is filled with merpeople like Pearl, then I don't think I'm going to like it." "There's only one way to find out," Echo said, taking a deep breath. "Let's go." Excerpted from Trouble at Trident Academy by Debbie Dadey All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.