Swim to me
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Betsy Carter.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781565124929
Subjects: Teenage girls -- Fiction.; Amusement parks -- Fiction.; Mermaids -- Fiction.; Adolescence -- Fiction.; Coming of age -- Fiction.; Historical fiction, American.; Seventies (20th century) -- Fiction.; Rescues -- Fiction.; Mermaids -- Fiction.; Swimming -- Fiction.; Single-parent family -- Fiction.; Weeki Wachee (Fla.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Desperate to compete with the newly opened Walt Disney World Resort, Miss Thelma Foote struggles to deal with the lack of business at Weeki Wachee Springs, while coping with the constant repairs, bills, and mischievous "mermaids," but everyone's luck takes a turn for the better when Delores Walker arrives from the Bronx to pursue her long-time dream of becoming a mermaid.