Trouble at Trident Academy

Name: Trouble at Trident Academy
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Debbie Dadey
ISBN: 9798350888560

Author: Debbie Dadey

Series: Mermaid Tales #1

Narrator: Jillian Yetter

Unabridged: 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/26/2023

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Fantasy Stories

Synopsis

In this start to a new series starring Shelly the mermaid, a classroom conflict is no fun—even when school is 20,000 leagues under the sea.

It's MerGirl Shelly Siren's first day at a new school, and she is nervous from the tip of her head to the end of her sparkling mermaid tail. How will she ever fit in at the prestigious Trident Academy? Everyone there is so smart and so pretty and so rich. At least she and her best friend, Echo, are in the same class, but so is Pearl, a spoiled know-it-all who only wants to make trouble for Shelly; Rocky, a MerBoy who loves to tease everyone; and Kiki, a shy MerGirl who's new to Trident City.

At first Shelly and Echo have lots of fun: eating lunch together, trying to make grumpy Mr. Fangtooth smile, and joining after-school clubs. But when Shelly and Echo have an argument about their very first school assignment, Pearl gets involved and makes matters worse. Will Shelly and Echo fix their friendship?

About Debbie Dadey

Debbie Dadey grew up in Kentucky and now lives in a log cabin in Tennessee with her husband and a greyhound rescue. Her children live along the East Coast and continue to inspire her. A former first grade teacher and school librarian, she is the author or coauthor of 176 traditionally published books. Her first children's book, Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots, coauthored with Marcia Thornton Jones, became the Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series, with sales of over 43 million. Her newest series, Mermaid Tales, is a multicultural series from Simon and Schuster. An upcoming spin-off series is Mermaid Mini Tales. She also coauthored Writing for Kids: The Ultimate Guide with Marcia Thornton Jones.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ryn on September 02, 2019

Shelly Siren is off to her first day at Trident Academy. She's not wealthy or super-intelligent like most of the merkids at Trident, and she's worried about fitting in. Shelly's awfully glad her best friend Echo will be right there with her! Or will it? After the friends disagree on a school assignm......more

Goodreads review by The KMB on December 16, 2017

These books hooked my 5 year old kindergartener. I am desperate to start getting her into chapter books and this is the first one she has LOVED! Goes to show how much choice and interest matter when comes to reading. It reads very similarly to a Sophia the First episode. Characters stay the way that......more

Goodreads review by Jaina on June 15, 2013

Fine, I'll up it to 2 stars. But I'd say it's more 1.5. See, I'm totally the wrong audience for this book. My sister got it from the library (she's eight, and therefore really is the right audience), and i picked it up out of boredom. Please. Just because they're young doesn't mean we need to spoon......more

Goodreads review by Katt on October 26, 2015

Your somewhat typical school story about friendship, starting at a new place, bullying girl, new girl, trying out for sports - only with mermaids. I would have liked this book had it been done better. But it felt like the author kept forgetting that she was dealing with an undersea environment (whic......more

Goodreads review by Mehsi on August 16, 2016

This was a cute mermaid story with fun characters and cute illustrations.......more