Not Quite a Mermaid
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It's New Year on Mermaid Island. Every year a young Queen of the New Year is chosen and Electra is desperate for it to be her! So she might get chosen, Electra and her dolphin friend, Splash, decide to swim over to the grotto to help the grown-ups decorate it for the New Party.
But Electra and Splash get carried away and make a BIG mess in the grotto. Sent away to behave, the two of them discover tunnels at the back of the grotto which lead to the deep sea. All the tunnels are safely blocked up except one. Electra and Splash try and tell the adults but they are too busy fixing the mess to listen!
So when a group of sharks swim down the tunnel and threaten to eat everybody it's up to Electra and Splash (and a giant ink squirting squid) to save the day!
Electra really wants to go and explore the shipwreck near Mermaid Island. She thinks she might find objects that would help her discover things about the human world she came from. But Maris, her adopted mermaid Mum, won't let her go as it's too dangerous. But Electra won't let that stop her...
She and her mer-friends decide to form a treasure hunters club but their first hunt is abandoned when everyone gets stung by purple jellyfish! On the way home Electra finds a tiny rare dwarf seahorse surrounded by the same jellyfish. She swims in and saves him before he gratefully swims off to his secret seahorse lair.
No one wants to explore very far after being stung and Electra gets very frustrated - in fact she and Sasha have a big fight about it. Sasha is so upset that she swims off - in the wrong direction! Electra swims after her but before they realise it they're both lost. Luckily the tiny seahorse appears again to lead them back to safety and on the way he leads them to a secret cave with a very special surprise!
Elecktra is a human mermaid - a mermaid with legs instead of a tail. Abandoned as a tiny baby, she was found and adopted by the merpeople of Mermaid Island, who gave her sea-powder so that she could live and breathe underwater. Now aged nine, Elecktra's desire for adventure is always getting her into trouble!
When Elektra's class learn how to dive down and collect magic mermaid fire, Elektra is keen to get more than everybody else! But to do this, she will have to swim away from the safety of the reef and deep deep down to the bottom of the dark and scary sea bed. When Elektra and her dolphin friend Splash dive down, they not only find mermaid fire but a whole of danger as well!
But not everyone finds Electra's tricks very funny and when she tries to warn her friends about something truly dangerous, no one will listen to her!
How will Electra make her friends believe her now?
But a scary snake has been spotted in the caves where the baby sea mice live.
Only a super brave mermaid would swim out there now!
How can Electra make Splash stay?
The next day the older mermaids swim off to the rocks where a special moss grows that will make their hair shine. But later on, Electra sees that the girls have got stranded on the rocks and their tails are burning in the sun! Even though their teacher told them not to approach the rocks, Electra decides to go and help the girls as she is the only one who can because of her legs!
The older girls are so grateful that they show Electra and her friends an underwater grotto, lit up by mermaid fire with tiny pink jellyfish and seahorses where they all have the best midnight feast ever!
But the adventure comes to an abrupt end when Electra's mum tells her that she is too young and won't let her go.
How will Electra have any fun now?