num_pages: 352
description: A novel about a girl navigating grief trauma and friendship.Hazel Bly used to live in the perfect house with the perfect family in sunny California. But when a kayaking trip goes horribly wrong Mum is suddenly gone forever and Hazel is left with crippling anxiety and a jagged scar on her face. After Mum's death Hazel her other mother Mama and her little sister Peach needed a fresh start. So for the last two years the Bly girls have lived all over the country never settling anywhere for more than a few months.When the family arrives in Rose Harbor Maine there's a wildness to the small town that feels like magic. But when Mama runs into an old childhood friendClairesuddenly Hazel's tight-knit world is infiltrated. To make it worse she has a daughter Hazel's age Lemon who can't stop rambling on and on about the Rose Maid a local 150-year-old mermaid myth.Soon Hazel finds herself just as obsessed with the Rose Maid as Lemon isbecause what if magic were real? What if grief really could change you so much you weren't even yourself anymore? And what if instead you emerged from the darkness stronger than before?
language: English
title: Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea
publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers