ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Josephine Cameron received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame. She lives in Maine, where she writes, sings, and teaches music to kids. Maybe a Mermaid is her debut novel. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Prologue: The Beemobile
1. Off with the Old and on with the New
2. Next Hive Destination: Eagle Waters
3. The Spectacular Showboat Resort
4. The Blue Heron
5. Impossible Things
6. Potentials
7. Queen Bee
8. Thunder Lake
9. Swim Lessons
10. Gills
11. Splash!
12. Honk for Assistance
13. Humbug
14. The Black Bear
15. Cleaning House
16. Trick Skis
17. Secrets
18. Novelty Acts of the Vaudeville Stage
19. Splash! Take Two
20. Team Goals
21. The Weight of the Past
22. All Is Change
23. Swim Lessons: Take Two
24. True or False
25. Gravity
26. Gillis Girls Don’t Believe in Maybe
27. Death of Vaudeville
28. Seven Spectacular Days That Will Change the Course of Your Life
29. Chopping Wood
30. Swim Lessons: Take Three
31. Fireworks
32. Out with a Bang
33. Splash! Take Three
34. The Show Must Go On
35. True Blue
36. Next Hive Destination: Chicago, IL
Epilogue
How to Publish a Novel in Four Easy Steps
About the Author
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
An imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Copyright © 2019 by Josephine Cameron
All rights reserved
First hardcover edition, 2019
eBook edition, April 2019
mackids.com
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Cameron, Josephine, author.
Title: Maybe a mermaid / Josephine Cameron.
Description: First edition.|New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2019.|Summary: When her mother, who sells Beauty & the Bee cosmetics and drives a Beemobile, surprises soon-to-be sixth-grader Anthoni with a trip to the Showboat Resort, Anthoni plans to finally make a “True Blue Friend.”
Identifiers: LCCN 2018020371|ISBN 9780374306427 (hardcover)
Subjects:|CYAC: Friendship—Fiction.|Mothers and daughters—Fiction.|Resorts—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.C327 May 2019|DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018020371
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