Julián Is a Mermaid

Julián Is a Mermaid
Author: Jessica Love
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1536214310

In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and ready to dazzle the world. While riding the subway home from the pool with his abuela one day, Julián notices three women spectacularly dressed up. Their hair billows in brilliant hues, their dresses end in fishtails, and their joy fills the train car. When Julián gets home, daydreaming of the magic he’s seen, all he can think about is dressing up just like the ladies in his own fabulous mermaid costume: a butter-yellow curtain for his tail, the fronds of a potted fern for his headdress. But what will Abuela think about the mess he makes — and even more importantly, what will she think about how Julián sees himself? Mesmerizing and full of heart, Jessica Love’s author-illustrator debut is a jubilant picture of self-love and a radiant celebration of individuality.

Lemons

Lemons
Author: Melissa D. Savage
Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524700126

After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sitings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.

Jessica's Mermaid

Jessica's Mermaid
Author: Molly Mia Stewart
Publisher: Sweet Valley
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1994
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780553481181

Jessica Wakefield has been "crying wolf" lately. So when she claims she has spotted a mermaid during a class trip to an ocean preserve, no one believes her. How is Jessica going to convince everyone that this time she really isn't kidding?

The Undrowned Child

The Undrowned Child
Author: Michelle Lovric
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2010-12-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 144400414X

It's the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days of her arrival, she is subsumed into the secret life of Venice: a world in which salty-tongued mermaids run subversive printing presses, ghosts good and bad patrol the streets and librarians turn fluidly into cats. A battle against forces determined to destroy the city once and for all quickly ensues. Only Teo, the undrowned child who survived a tragic accident as a baby, can go 'between the linings' to subvert evil and restore order.

Jessica and Her Adventures in Fairyland

Jessica and Her Adventures in Fairyland
Author: David Osborn
Publisher: Dagmar Miura
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1942267789

Fiery dragons, witches, goblins, and wizards don’t stop Jessica, a little girl who lives with her mother in the poorest part of a great city, from endless adventuring in the magic of Fairyland and other faraway places. Join her and enchanting fairyland friends in five thrilling stories. In one she overcomes pirates and ogres to defeat an evil sorceress, and in another defies monster spirits and faces down a wicked witch to free a fairy princess from savage goblins. Be with her in a lovely fairyland refuge saving long-forgotten toys from a terrible fate, and yet again when in a battle of wits, she defeats an all-powerful wizard to restore a lost dragon child to its mother. Don’t miss a final adventure in which, ever undaunted, she braves killer trees, bedouin robbers, and a fearful yeti tyrant to rescue old fairyland friends from imminent peril in the circus of a cruel and merciless clown.

The Amazing Jessica

The Amazing Jessica
Author: Molly Mia Stewart
Publisher: Sweet Valley
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1995
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780553482126

The circus has come to town, and Jessica is ready to join it after she learns that her great-great-grandmother Jessamyn was a bareback rider in the circus.

Jessica's Secret Friend

Jessica's Secret Friend
Author: Molly Mia Stewart
Publisher: Sweet Valley
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780553483383

To Jessica Wakefield, Lila Fowler is not her best friends, not since the big fight. Jessica was sad until she found a bottle floating in the ocean. It had a message inside! The message was from a girl who really needs a friend. Just like me! Now I have a secret friend. But will I ever get to meet her?

If It All Blows Up And Goes To Hell

If It All Blows Up And Goes To Hell
Author: Lisa Mottola Hudon
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2019-07-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0359547281

This is the third book in Mottola Hudon's Buffettesque Romantic Suspense series. IF IT ALL BLOWS UP AND GOES TO HELL follows the life of a small town Midwestern girl and her Trop-rock husband as they battle both mother nature and human nature from Key West, to Illinois, to France. Will their past come back to haunt them or will it ultimately save their lives? Mottola Hudon's books are Parrothead favorites, voted Readers' Choice for Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Book Club and holding a place of their own on Mr. Buffett's personal bookshelf.

Jessica's Wish

Jessica's Wish
Author: Marci Bolden
Publisher: Pink Sand Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1950348113

One wish can change everything. This year when Jessica Martinson-Canton blows out eleven candles on her homemade vegan cake, she makes the same wish she’s made for as many birthdays as she can remember: she wants a mother. Jessica’s father Phil has worked his entire life to create a more stable childhood for his daughter than he had with his unwed teenaged mother. When his wife left him and their newborn daughter in their most vulnerable hour, Phil pledged to give his baby everything. His parents have reunited and are working hard to create a supportive extended family, but rainbow pancakes and princess murals can’t heal the dark void left in Phil’s heart which he won’t even admit is there. Mallory O’Connell leaves her dream job in a big city to return home to help her fiercely independent mother recover from tragedy. After forming a unique bond with Jessica—and a friendship with Jessica’s hot father—Mallory finds that in coming back to Stonehill she might just have found a way to make all of her dreams come true. But as their families push Phil and Mallory together, old insecurities and Phil’s worst fears threaten to break up the happy trio and catch Jessica in the emotional crossfire.