2 Novels by Alice Kaltman
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Overview: As a young girl Alice longed to be a mermaid. Her idol sat demurely on the Chicken of the Sea tuna fish cans. She peeled labels off to save her image. Every night before bedtime Alice squeezed both legs in to one side of her pajama bottoms and shuffled around the house pretending she was as beautiful as the tuna fish mermaid.
Real mermaid-hood proved elusive, so Alice became a modern dancer instead. For over twenty years she worked with brilliant choreographers and performed in amazing places. And while she’s still paid to do the occasional pirouette, Alice also works as a Parenting Coach/Writer helping out moms and dads, and talking to kids also, about their (often annoying) parents.
Alice splits her time between Brooklyn and Montauk, New York where she lives with her husband and daughter. She now wears her pajamas regular style.
Genre: Fiction > Children/Young Adult
Wavehouse
Wavehouse is the story of sixteen-year-old Anna Dugan, a surfer who feels most at home when taking off on a ten-foot wave or paddling through a dicey churn-fest of white water. Anna loves to surf, but surf culture bores her big time. While other surfers follow trends and speak the lingo, Anna dreams of houses, not waves. She harbors a secret desire to be an architect or an artist, not the most practical dream for the daughter of a single mom living in a beach town where most kids her age are so surf-centric that they think ‘Current Events’ have something to do with ocean tides.
When a professional surf scout comes to town to gauge her talent, Anna freaks out and refuses to let him watch her. The idea of professional surfing causes her major anxiety and she hasn’t a clue why her reaction is so extreme. On the other hand Anna’s mother Sara, an avid surfer herself, is totally psyched by the idea of Anna going pro. But Sara is a perpetual thorn in Anna’s side. She’s a former party girl, and a constant flirt while Anna is a bookish loner who has never been on a date.
To protect herself from the pressure and the panic, Anna decides to only surf at a private break called Secretspot for the rest of the summer. But Secretspot becomes treacherous in ways Anna never imagined, and the danger has nothing to do with waves. When a stranger named Crazy paddles his way over from a distant break and befriends Anna, a series of events are set in motion that will change both their lives forever, events that raise difficult questions about honesty, betrayal and family ties.
Dive in to Wavehouse (life-preserver recommended and the decision is yours).
The Tantalizing Tale of Grace Minnaugh
Eleven-year-old Grace Minnaugh is not a fan of big change. And so, she’s miserable during her first weeks in the seaside town of La Toya, sulking like a spoiled brat while her family embrace the California lifestyle with gusto. But Grace’s entire life is destined to change in miraculous ways because she can’t resist the seductive beauty of the sea. One fateful morning, while taking a predawn swim, Grace is caught in a thunderstorm. Without the ocean skills to survive, she’s sucked below the surface, convinced she will drown. Instead, a new life begins. Gills rip open from behind her ears and her legs fuse together to form a fishtail. Grace Minnaugh is a mermaid, and a gorgeous one at that.
On land, Grace is still the same walking, talking social misfit she’s always been. But when fully submerged in the salty sea, she’s an underwater marvel. Not sure what to make of this fantastic conundrum, Grace decides not to tell a soul about her flip-floppy, double life. Things get more complicated when Grace befriends Alfie DeCosta, a kid who’s obsessed with finding an elusive shipwreck off the coast of La Toya. Grace knows exactly where the shipwreck is. But she can’t tell Alfie about it, or can she?
Plunge in to The Tantalizing Tale of Grace Minnaugh, a marvelous ride for landlubbers and mer-folk alike. But be forewarned; whether you’ve got a fishtail or feet, you will get wet!
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