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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library Juvenile Easy 1st Floor	E LONG		AVAILABLE

Author	Long, Jessica Tatiana, author.
Title	The mermaid with no tail / story by Jessica Long ; illustrated by Airin O'Callaghan ; foreword by Michael Phelps.
OCLC	1355828729
ISBN	9781649630933 hardcover
	164963093X hardcover
Publisher	Boulder, Colorado : Sounds True, 2023.
	�2023.
Description	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Swimmers -- Juvenile fiction.
	Swimming for people with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction.
	Mermaids -- Juvenile fiction.
	Individual differences -- Juvenile fiction.
	Adoptees -- Juvenile fiction.
	Contests -- Juvenile fiction.
Other Genre heading/s	Sea fiction.
	Picture books.
Summary	Paralympic champion swimmer and gold medalist Jessica Long celebrates the importance of dreaming big and the power of being different in The Mermaid with No Tail. As a baby, Jessica was adopted from a Russian orphanage. Her legs were amputated below the knee when she was 18 months old. Despite this, Jessica has become a world-class swimmer and one of the most decorated athletes of all time. Dive into this illustrated picture book based on Jessica's story, where a mermaid with no tail decides she wants to compete in the Mermaid Games. The other mermaids make fun of her for being different. But her adoptive turtle parents are supportive and encouraging, and her shark coach, Phelpsy, teaches her to swim using her arms. The mermaid trains hard, maintains a good attitude, and eventually wins the games.

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