Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath by Helene Boudreau, 2012 JabberwockyA month after her fourteenth birthday Jade is still reeling from her mermaid-ness, the knowledge that her mother didn't drown in the lake last year and is a mermaid too, and the kiss from mer-boy Luke at her best friend's party earlier in the summer.
Jade deals with the struggles of being fourteen--does Luke really like her, or was he just playing with her emotions; will her father allow her to date him if Luke does like Jade; and what is going on with her mom?
Jade and her dad have been searching for her mother since Jade helped her to escape the freshwater prison where she was trapped in mermaid form. When she finds her mom in a tidal pool about to be bulldozed Jade does everything in her power to protect the pool and release her mother.
Jade is a normal teen dealing with the usual woes while she is anything but a normal teen, living between the human world and the mer-world. Her tensions rise from the conflict between who she knows she is and who she is learning she is. It is a universal adolescent problem and relates to pre-teen readers.
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