Under the Mermaid Angel

Martha Moore. Laurel Leaf Library, $3.99 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-440-22682-6

A flamboyant, 30-year-old redhead adds spark to a 13-year-old girl's life in a Texas trailer park in this ""intermittently witty, often strained first novel,"" said PW. Ages 12-up. (May)

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