A mermaid girl / by Sana Rafi ; illustrated by Olivia Aserr.
Wearing her burkini to the community pool for the first time, Heba stands out more than she likes, but she shows her friends that she can swim and play the same way they can, even though her swimsuit looks different.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593327609
- ISBN: 0593327608
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | Ages 5-7 years. Viking. Grades 2-3. Viking. AD570L Lexile Decoding demand: 70 (high) Semantic demand: 79 (high) Syntactic demand: 75 (high) Structure demand: 89 (very high) Lexile |
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Subject: | Bathing suits > Juvenile fiction. Swimming pools > Juvenile fiction. Muslims > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Picture books. Livres d'images. |
Available copies
- 6 of 6 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Crawford County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Crawford County Library-Recklein Memorial-Cuba | E RAF (Text) | 33431000612349 | Easy Reader | Available | - |
Crawford County Library-Steelville | E RAF (Text) | 33431000652121 | Easy Reader | Available | - |
Summary
A Mermaid Girl
A young girl celebrates the experience of wearing a burkini for the first time in this lyrical and heartwarming picture book that casts a fresh light on timeless summer activities, and celebrates cultural traditions and intergenerational bonds. Summer is here and Heba is so excited to wear her new, yellow burkini to the community pool for the first time! She can't wait to look like the other mermaid girls in her family and sparkle like the sun. But when Heba arrives at the pool and her friends start asking her questions about her new special swimsuit, she feels like she's standing out too much. Suddenly her burkini seems like a bad idea. Luckily Mama helps Heba to find strength in the mermaid girls who came before her. Feeling more connected to the women of her family, Heba is ready to show her friends that she can do all the same things that they can do-handstands, summersaults, and dives off the diving board-even while wearing her yellow burkini.