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Sent to stay with her estranged grandmother while her parents try to save their crumbling marriage, 11-year-old Bailey feels helpless and cast away. When a self-proclaimed prophet predicts "a stranger from the sea will change everything," Bailey hopes this stranger can solve her problems-little suspecting her own ability to influence the world.
About the author
Shari Green spent childhood summers exploring tide pools and reading stacks of library books. She’s still in love with stories and the sea, so when a driftwood mermaid washed up in her imagination, she knew a beach story was brewing. Shari lives in Campbell River, British Columbia, with her husband, kids, and the worst watchdog ever. Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles is her first book for children.
Summary
Written
in light and lyrical free verse, Shari Green’s debut novel about the hard and
beautiful truths of growing up—and growing into one’s own ability to shape the
world—is now back in a new edition.
Eleven-year-old
Bailey believes in miracles. She has to; it will take a miracle to keep her
warring parents together. This summer they are at a Marriage Counselling camp,
leaving Bailey and her little brother Kevin with their estranged grandmother in
the island town of Felicity Bay. There Jasper, an eccentric deposed
minister-turned-ice-cream-vendor, makes a prophecy that a stranger from the sea
will change everything.
In
bestselling author Shari Green’s warm and wistful debut, Bailey’s seaside
summer is marked by powerful realizations about the strengths and weaknesses of
all the people in her life…including herself. When the waves wash ashore a
piece of driftwood that looks like a mermaid, Bailey begins to believe that the
mermaid is the stranger from the sea. Does her appearance mean that things
really will get better in Felicity Bay and in Bailey’s family?
