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    Mermaid Academy: Maya and Rainbow: Maya and Rainbow
    Mermaid Academy: Maya and Rainbow: Maya and Rainbow
    Mermaid Academy: Maya and Rainbow: Maya and Rainbow
    Ebook83 pages48 minutes

    Mermaid Academy: Maya and Rainbow: Maya and Rainbow

    By Julie Sykes, Linda Chapman and Lucy Truman

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    Mermazing action-packed underwater adventures for young readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout and with a glittery cover! From the authors and illustrator of the bestselling Unicorn Academy series.
    Hidden deep beneath the waves is Mermaid Academy, a magical school where mermaids are paired with their very own dolphin and must discover their unique mermaid magic, with plenty of adventure along the way!
    Maya loves studying at Mermaid Academy. She just wishes her playful dolphin, Rainbow, would take school seriously too. But when they get lost on a school trip and Maya can't magic a Bubble Tunnel home, things get very serious indeed! Can their friends find them before a sea monster does?
    Mermaid Academy is the perfect series for 7+ readers who love magic and adventure.
    Look out for more titles! Isla and Bubble, Cora and Sparkle and Amber and Flash.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNosy Crow Ltd
    Release dateOct 12, 2023
    ISBN9781805130376
    Mermaid Academy: Maya and Rainbow: Maya and Rainbow
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    Julie Sykes

    Julie Sykes is an award-winning author of over fifty books, mostly about animals and magic. She lives with her family, their wolf and a flying carpet in a cottage in Hampshire. Julie first wrote about Fairy Bears after meeting Glitter the Fairy Bear in her back garden. When Julie isn't busy writing, she spends her time eating cake and having flying races with her Fairy Bear friends.

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      Mermaid Academy - Julie Sykes

      For Antonia, Iola and Amany,

      who would love to be students

      at Mermaid Academy

      J.S. and L.C.

      Dearest Ruby, happy reading,

      may all your dreams come true x

      L.T.

      Rainbow swooshed up to Maya and nudged her arm. Maya, the others want us to go and play fin-ball!

      Maya looked up from her book and wriggled. Rainbow, you’re tickling me! She gave her dolphin a gentle push, and spotted her friends from Moon Pearl dorm – Amber, Isla and Cora – treading water a little way off with their dolphins, Flash, Bubble and Sparkle.

      Come on, said Rainbow. Let’s go and play. She wriggled her nose under Maya’s arm. Pleeeeeease!

      Maya hesitated. Lessons had finished for the day and the first-year students were relaxing in The Singing Circle, but Maya had been hoping to read her new library book, Bubble Tunnels for Beginners. After that she planned to sketch the little nibbler fish who liked to chomp on the coral walls of Mermaid Academy.

      Get a swish on, Maya! called Isla. The boys from Sea Jet have challenged us to a rematch.

      This time we are definitely going to win! said Amber.

      Maya felt torn. Fin-ball was fun but she really did want to finish her book before tomorrow’s lesson. Making bubble tunnels was a new topic and Maya liked to get things right first time, even if it meant putting extra work in. She’d been awarded two sea-star points by her teachers that day for being prepared for her lessons, and she hoped to get some more the next day. You lot go on without me, she said, her eyes already straying back to the page.

      No, Maya, protested Amber, swimming over. We won’t be such a good team without you.

      Pleeeeeease come! chorused Isla and Cora, joining her.

      Rainbow swooshed her tail through Maya’s hair then used her nose to flip the book shut. She gave Maya a cheeky smile. Don’t be a boring barnacle, Maya! Let’s have some fun.

      I’m not a boring barnacle! Maya protested. I just want to make sure I’m ready for tomorrow’s lesson.

      You will be. You’re always top of every class. Come on, Rainbow said. Slapping her flippers against her sides, she chanted, Play! Play! Play!

      Maya gave in. Rainbow, a pretty pink dolphin who was patterned with bright rainbows, loved having a good time and Maya knew Rainbow wouldn’t stop until she got her own way.

      OK, I’ll carry on reading after dinner, Maya said, slipping her book into her bag. As she got up, her tail tingled with anticipation and she realised she was really looking forward to the game. Since joining Mermaid Academy, she’d been practising fin-ball whenever she had spare time and now was an opportunity to test out her moves.

      Her friends high-fived her and Rainbow turned a delighted somersault then pushed her back fin into Maya’s hand. Let’s go!

      Following her friends, Maya let Rainbow pull her through the sparkling turquoise water, her purple, blue and pink hair streaming out behind her. Moon Pearl dorm whooshed out of The Singing Circle, dodging between two of Mermaid Academy’s majestic coral towers. Beyond the buildings, the grounds of the school stretched in all directions. Maya and her friends passed the playpark with its awesome spinning clams and twisty mother-of-pearl slides, then glided through the Tranquillity Haven with its winding shell paths and beds of gently waving anemones.

      Who wants to race? called Amber, smiling at her dolphin, Flash.

      Me! shouted Isla and Bubble together, and the four of them sped ahead in a swirl of bubbles.

      Maya and Cora grinned at each other as they continued to swim along with their dolphins. Cora liked to look at wildlife

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