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    Twist and Shout
    Twist and Shout
    Twist and Shout
    Ebook70 pages25 minutes

    Twist and Shout

    By Debbie Dadey and Tatevik Avakyan

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    In this sparkling Mermaid Tales adventure, Echo hurts her tail when she falls off of a sea horse—right before the big Tail Flippers competition! Will she still be able to flip her way to a trophy?

    Echo loves dancing in the Trident Academy Tail Flippers. When she’s not dancing, she also loves riding sea horses, so when a classmate offers to let her ride their newest horse, Pinky, she doesn’t think twice!

    But when a slithery eel darts in front of Pinky, Echo gets knocked off and hits a rock. Her entire body aches—from scales to tail—so she heads to the doctor. Dr. Weedy tells Echo that moving her tail is absolutely out of the question. Not only can Echo not swim, but even worse, she can’t compete in the Poseidon Tail Flippers team competition! And Echo’s their star flipper. Without Echo’s tricks and flips, Trident City’s team doesn’t stand a chance.

    Echo’s friends find a pair of human crutches, which help her get around without the use of her tail. But that doesn’t solve the Tail Flipping problem! Will Echo find a way to help her team win from the sidelines?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAladdin
    Release dateMay 17, 2016
    ISBN9781481440806
    Twist and Shout
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    Debbie Dadey

    Debbie Dadey is an author of early readers and graphic novels including The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids Graphix Chapters Books. She lives in Sevierville, Tennessee, with her husband Eric and their dog Carmen.

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    Twist and Shout - Debbie Dadey

    Contents

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    MAP OF TRIDENT CITY

    CAST OF CHARACTERS

    1 EA HORSES

    2 DR. WEEDLY

    3 NO DANCING!

    4 CRUTCHIES TO THE RESCUE!

    5 MIRACLE?

    6 DILLY DALLY DODO

    7 ANOTHER PLAN

    8 ACCIDENTS HAPPEN

    9 HUMAN GAMES

    10 SHAKE YOUR TAIL

    11 PEARL’S BIG IDEA

    12 THE COMPETITION

    CLASS CARDS FOR ECHO

    THE MERMAID TALES SONG

    AUTHOR’S NOTE

    GLOSSARY

    BOOKS VS. LOOKS EXCERPT

    ABOUT DEBBIE DADEY

    To Betty Gibson and Judy Dohr

    for helping me through

    the worst week of my life

    Acknowledgments

    Thanks to Metta and Michi Vojta for their keen eyes on the Mermaid Tales teaching units.

    Sea Horses

    GREAT JOB ON YOUR KELP reports, Mrs. Karp told her class of third graders. I’m so glad you enjoyed ‘My Side of the Ocean.’ It is one of my favorite stories."

    Echo tried to pay attention to the lesson, but she couldn’t keep her pink tail from tapping the ocean floor. She couldn’t wait until school was over! When the final conch shell sounded, Echo soared out of her seat and down the hallway of Trident Academy.

    Her best friend, Shelly, followed Echo and patted her shoulder. Do you have Tail Flippers practice today, or can you come over?

    Echo loved being part of the Tail Flippers dance team, and since the big Poseidon City Dance Competition was coming up next week, Coach Barnacle had been making them practice almost every day after school. Echo’s fins ached from all the hard work.

    Echo had been working especially hard because she had a big job to do. She was going to perform a very difficult flip called a Scale Dropper. And she was going to do it from the top of a mer-pyramid formed by the other team members! It would be their big finale.

    Normally, Echo would have spent her free afternoon at Shelly’s home, especially since Shelly lived right above the Trident City People Museum. Echo loved learning about the human world. But there was something else she liked just as much: sea horses!

    Echo shook her head. We don’t have practice today, but Rocky invited me to ride his sea horse this afternoon.

    Shelly smiled. "That sounds

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