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  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

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  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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