Wrong Tails

by John C. Horst

Sam Ford expected her summer vacation on Nantucket Island to be pretty much as it always has been. Fun in the sun and maybe some surfing. But it’s her first year without her caretaker and companion, Nana, who has worked to help cure Sam’s club feet as long as the precocious twelve year old can remember.

Little could Sam imagine what was in store for her on her first surfing expedition of the summer as she finds herself pulled out to sea by a mysterious riptide, only to land on a strange island almost a thousand miles away from her vacation home and family.

She soon learns, she’s been brought to the mysterious place to help a special creature, a mermaid who has grown a wrong tail, which will never do, given her special circumstance and place in mermaid society.

Follow Sam and mermaid Lorelei as they come to grips with their differences and learn to appreciate the greatness of the gifts their unique situation has afforded them.

Travel with them as they overcome the fury of a kraken, becoming great heroines, and change the way a whole culture comes to view their uniqueness among the world of the merfolk.

Genres: Fantasy

132 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 29, 2014

Reviews

[Whitney Cannavina · Rating 4 out of 5]

This review will be short. I won this book on a giveaway through goodreads for my kids. I read it and my kids read it. This is a novel about a young girl who goes on vacation with her parents to Nantucket Island. She talks about some of her life and how she's had to overcome a few small struggles mainly with her club feet and seemingly unloving mother. Or maybe just thatvher mother doesn't quite relatr to her. While on her vacation she gets pulled out to sea while surfing only to wash up on an island a thousand miles away. She figures out that she was brought there to help a mermaid with a slight deformity with her tail. They can relate due to their special circumstances with slight deformities. This book is a great read for children to early teens and teaches us about how to overcome obstacles and individualism. It also teaches about understanding and learning to be happy with what you were given even if you're not perfect in every way.

[Melanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this book! I finished it the day I received it in the mail (from a giveaway), and I am so happy I did. The writing of John Horst is beautiful,imaginative, and definitely inspiring. Wrong Tails is written in the perspective of a passionate twelve-year-old girl, Sam, with club feet who meets a mermaid, Lori, with a tail facing the wrong way... A wrong tail. The two friends go on their adventure, trying to fix Lori's wrong tail that makes her an outcast underwater. The girls soon discover that what makes them different also makes them unique and special.

I would put a favorite quote in here somewhere, but then it would turn out to be the whole book...

Even if you are not a fan of mermaids, I think this book relates to everyone. Concepts within this book are real issues that are being told in a fun and exciting way.

[D. E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

An adventure into almost Wonderland. A young girl goes surfing and is drawn to see by a strong current. She is not aware of how far she had traveled until a large whale swam because her. The whale said to be patient because a Mermaid is on it's on time schedule. Between the handicap of the young girl and the Mermaid they finally conclude every person is unique in their own right way. These people must overcome natural sickness and become the best than can be in their limited p h fiscal well being. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS

[Katelyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

When Lorelei, a mermaid whose tail is a little different, meets Samantha, a human who has been surfing, the two are in for big surprises!