Title: September girls
Description: Vacationing in a sleepy beach town for the summer, Sam is pursued by hordes of blonde girls before falling in love with the unusual DeeDee, who compels him to uncover secrets about the community's ocean-dwelling inhabitants.

When 17-year-old Sam's dad whisks him and his older brother off to the beach for the summer, he's all for it ... at first. Sam soon realizes, though, that this sleepy little beach town is anything but average. Time seems to slow down around here, and everywhere he looks, there are beautiful blond girls. Girls who seem inexplicably drawn to him. Then Sam meets DeeDee, one of the Girls, and she's different from the others. Just as he starts to fall for her, she pulls away, leaving him more confused than ever. He knows that if he's going to get her back, he'll have to uncover the secret of this beach and the girls who live here.
Subjects: Love, Secrets, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Mermaids, Vacations, Secrecy, Love stories, Children's fiction, Mermaids, fiction, Vacations, fiction, Love, fiction, Holidays, fiction, collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=honor