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Best friends Claire and Hailey are spending their last few days of Summer at the very isolated Capri Beach Club that once was a happening spot but presently is neglected. Claire only has a few days before she and her grandparents move away to Florida. Until a storm hits it one night and Claire and Hailey discover it brought something with it into the pool, a mermaid!

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Best friends Claire and Hailey are spending their last few days of Summer summer at the very isolated Capri Beach Club that Club, which was once was a happening spot but presently is neglected. now run-down, abandoned, and about to be torn down. On top of that, Claire only has a few days before she and her grandparents move away to Florida. Until One night, a storm hits it one night hits, and Claire and Hailey discover it it's brought something with it into the pool, pool: a mermaid!



* AbandonedArea: The Capri Beach Club is pretty much this. The only person still working there is Raymond and the only two people who come there are Claire and Hailey to the point the owners planned to bulldoze it after that summer.
* AnAesop: That life moves on and friends move away but that doesn't mean the end of the friendship.
* ChildhoodMemoryDemolitionTeam: The incoming demolition of the Capri Beach Club weighs heavily on Claire and Hailey as it will be destroyed at the same time their last summer together ends. Hailey stays to actually watch it be demolished but changes her mind not to take a picture to show Claire so she can remember it how it was.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Claire lives with her grandparents after they died in some form of accident.

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* AbandonedArea: The Capri Beach Club is pretty much this. The only person still working there is Raymond Raymond, and the only two people who come there are Claire and Hailey to the point the Hailey. The owners planned plan to bulldoze have it bulldozed after that summer.
* AnAesop: That life Life moves on and friends move away but that doesn't mean the end of the friendship.
* ChildhoodMemoryDemolitionTeam: The incoming demolition of the Capri Beach Club weighs heavily on Claire and Hailey Hailey, as it will be destroyed at the same time their last summer together ends. Hailey stays to actually watch it be demolished but changes her mind not to take a picture to show Claire so she can remember it how it was.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Claire lives with her grandparents after they her parents died in some form of accident.



* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Here mermaids like Aquamarine can stay out of water for short periods of time but will dissolve into green sea foam.
* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Claire and Hailey are best friends and really don't want to be seperated to the point that Hailey insists she won't even TALK to the new neighbor girl, unless there's like a fire or something.
* ShoutOut: Aquamarine being the youngest of MassiveNumberedSiblings is one to ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' who was also one.

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* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Here mermaids Mermaids like Aquamarine can stay out of water for short periods of time but will dissolve into green sea foam.
* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Claire and Hailey are best friends and really don't want to be seperated separated, to the point that Hailey insists she won't even TALK to the new neighbor girl, unless there's like a fire or something.
* ShoutOut: Aquamarine being the youngest of MassiveNumberedSiblings is one to ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'', who was also one.
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* MermaidInAWheelchair: Claire and Hailey borrow a wheelchair from Claire's grandfather so Aquamarine can leave the pool and go on a date with human boy Raymond. [[AbledInTheAdaptation Notably, this was absent from the adaptation, where she could grow legs.]]

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* ChildhoodMemoryDemolitionTeam: The incoming demolition of the Capri Beach Club weighs heavily on Claire and Hailey as it will be destroyed at the same time their last summer together ends. Hailey stays to actually watch it be demolished but changes her mind not to take a picture to show Claire so she can remember it how it was.



* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Aquamarine has six sisters.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Here mermaids like Aquamarine can stay out of water for short periods of time but will desolve into green sea foam.

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* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Aquamarine has six is the youngest of seven mermaid sisters.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Here mermaids like Aquamarine can stay out of water for short periods of time but will desolve dissolve into green sea foam.



* ShoutOut: Aquamarine's family of six sisters is one to ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid''.

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* ShoutOut: Aquamarine's family Aquamarine being the youngest of six sisters MassiveNumberedSiblings is one to ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid''.''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' who was also one.
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* AbandonedArea: The Capri Beach Club is pretty much this. The only person still working there is Raymond and the only two people who come there are Claire and Hailey to the point the owners planned to bulldoze it after that summer.


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* PseudoRomanticFriendship: Claire and Hailey are best friends and really don't want to be seperated to the point that Hailey insists she won't even TALK to the new neighbor girl, unless there's like a fire or something.
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Aquamarine is a novel by Creator/AliceHoffman in 2001.

Best friends Claire and Hailey are spending their last few days of Summer at the very isolated Capri Beach Club that once was a happening spot but presently is neglected. Claire only has a few days before she and her grandparents move away to Florida. Until a storm hits it one night and Claire and Hailey discover it brought something with it into the pool, a mermaid!

Was adapted into a film in 2007. See ''Film/{{Aquamarine}}'' for tropes related to that.

!! Tropes:
* AnAesop: That life moves on and friends move away but that doesn't mean the end of the friendship.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Claire lives with her grandparents after they died in some form of accident.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Aquamarine covers herself with her long hair and is noted to not be wearing any clothing.
* InterspeciesRomance: Aquamarine a mermaid has a crush on Raymond a human.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Aquamarine has six sisters.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Here mermaids like Aquamarine can stay out of water for short periods of time but will desolve into green sea foam.
* ShoutOut: Aquamarine's family of six sisters is one to ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid''.

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