Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Audiobook review)

Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings (unabr.). 5 CDs. 4:48 hrs. Dreamscape Media. 2010. ISBN 978-1-61120-004-1. $34.99.

Gr 5-8--Jade, 14, finally gets her first period-in the dressing room at the mall. She shoves napkins in her panties and makes a beeline to the drugstore, where her dad Googles "menstruation" on his Blackberry and fills up a shopping cart with feminine hygiene products, pain pills, and bath salts. Embarrassed and blushing, Jade runs into handsome Luke Martin and can't put a sentence together. When she gets home, she takes a bath and grows a tail. Her dad explains that her mother, who went missing a year ago, was …