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Breathe and Count Back from Ten | Natalia Sylvester

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In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Ver�nica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body. Ver�nica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Ver�nica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex, her cute new neighbor. She decides it�s time to seize control of her life, but her plans come crashing down when she learns her parents have been hiding the truth from her�the truth about her own body.

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Breathe and Count Back from Ten | Natalia Sylvester

"Who are you being strong for? Which was really 'who are you enduring pain for?' It's been for everyone else but me. If I've endured it, it's because I didn't want to be a bother. Didn't want to disappoint. I used to think strength was about proving proving all the things I could do, but maybe it's also about voicing the things I can't. Saying I don't want this. For myself and my own body."

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