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New Release!

Real Mermaids Don’t Hold Their Breath (book #2)

Normal is never coming back…

Jade is totally confused. As in, “will this be a leg-day or a tail-day?” kind of confused. Even worse, it’s been forever since her first kiss with Luke and now—nothing. Not even a text message.

Sigh.

But Jade doesn’t have time to figure out the weirdness of boys and how to use her shiny new tail. (Seriously, being a mermaid should come with a handbook.) She has to come up with a plan to get her missing mermaid mom back on dry land.

The only problem is…Jade is afraid of the ocean. But even aqua-phobic mer-girls have to take the plunge sometime…

Praise for Real Mermaids Don’t Wear Toe Rings:

“Bravo to Hélène Boudreau for hitting the bull’s-eye with a fresh, affectionate, watery twist on the classic coming-of-age-story.”—New York Journal of Books

“The author keeps suspense high…while tapping straight into young teens’ angst about friends, enemies, and boys.”—Kirkus

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News!

REAL MERMAIDS DON’T WEAR TOE RINGS is a

2011 Crystal Kite Member Choice Award Finalist

From Publisher’s Marketplace:

CHILDRENS: MIDDLE GRADE
REAL MERMAIDS DON’T WEAR TOE RINGS author Hélène Boudreau’s next two books in the Real Mermaids series, about a plus-sized, aquaphobic teenager with mermaid tendencies, again to Rebecca Frazer at Jabberwocky, by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency (World English).

AUDIO RIGHTS:
Helene Boudreau’s REAL MERMAIDS DON’T WEAR TOE RINGS, to Brad Rose at Dreamscape Media, by Anne Landa at Sourcebooks.

CHILDREN’S: MIDDLE GRADE
Helene Boudreau’s REAL MERMAIDS DON’T WEAR TOE RINGS, about an aquaphobic mer-girl trying to balance the drama of two-legged teenage life with her quest to rescue her mermaid mother from really scary mer-dudes, to Rebecca Frazer at Jabberwocky, for publication in Fall 2010, by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency (World).

CHILDREN’S: PICTURE BOOK
Helene Boudreau’s I DARE YOU NOT TO YAWN, an anti-bedtime story testing the theory of whether yawns are contagious, to Mary Lee Donovan at Candlewick, by Lauren MacLeod at The Strothman Agency (World).

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