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Lighthouse and the Mermaid

Lighthouse and the Mermaid

Ahmed, Aqeel

Paperback

General Juvenile Fiction

ISBN10: 183423073X
ISBN13: 9781834230733
Publisher: 978-1-83423-073-3
Published: Aug 22 2025
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lighthouse and the Mermaid

Short Summary - Lighthouse and the Mermaid.

A Human and a Mermaid Become Friends

Seaglass Cove is a small town with a big horizon, where the ocean unfurls each morning like a silver-blue ribbon and a steadfast lighthouse blinks hello to passing boats. After storms, bright pieces of sea glass-cooled, smoothed, and safe to hold-wash onto the sand. Eleven-year-old Maya keeps a jar of those tiny treasures on her bedroom windowsill.

She's a careful listener and a quick sketcher of restless things: shorebirds teetering on wind, tide pools brimming with secrets, a gull balanced on one leg, the brief gleam of a dolphin's back. Her grandpa, a retired fisherman with a twinkle in his eye, teaches her knots and kites and how to read the wind by watching a flag. The sea will talk to you, he says. Not with words, but with signs.

One summer, change arrives like a rumor on the breeze. A developer promises taller seawalls, brighter boardwalk lights, and fireworks that will bloom over the harbor. Fisherfolk hope for safer docks; visitors imagine easier strolls and perfect photos. Others worry the plans will hush the cove's older music-the far carry of whale calls, shells chiming in rock hollows, the soft rush of eelgrass below. Maya isn't sure which to wish. She only knows she loves the shore as it is, so she keeps walking the low-tide maze with her tide chart folded in her pocket and her sketchbook under her arm.

On a clear morning, when the sky looks freshly painted and wet rocks shine, Maya meets someone she had only drawn in daydreams: Naida, a mermaid with sea-green eyes and hair threaded with silver. A cautious hello at low tide becomes a quiet agreement to meet again. From that small moment, a friendship begins-built on listening, curiosity, and care-that will teach them both to notice the sea's signs and to imagine gentler ways for people and water to share one home.

In Seaglass Cove, where rumors can fly like gull feathers, the lighthouse, the sea glass, and a brave hello at the edge of the tide start a different kind of story-one that asks everyone to bring their ears, and their hearts, and truly listen.

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