Battle of the Best Friends

By Debbie Dadey and Tatevik Avakyan

In this splashy new Mermaid Tale, a megapopular boy band is set to perform at an undersea celebration—but what if a mean girl keeps Shelly from joining in the fun?

Echo, Shelly Siren’s best friend, is doing tail flips because she’s going to see the hottest boy band around—The Rays! It’s her classmate Pearl’s birthday, and the Rays are going to perform at her exclusive party. Troublemaker Pearl has invited just about everyone—everyone, that is, except Shelly! Shelly urges Echo to go anyway, but Echo doesn’t want to leave her friend out of the exciting celebration…so Shelly hatches a plan to make sure Echo sees her favorite group. And when the Rays do come to town (amidst plenty of under-the-sea, boy band drama), Echo returns the favor so that Shelly is included in the festivities—in the most unexpected of ways!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aladdin
• Release date: May 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9781442429833

Debbie Dadey

Debbie Dadey is an author of early readers and graphic novels including The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids Graphix Chapters Books. She lives in Sevierville, Tennessee, with her husband Eric and their dog Carmen.

Book preview

Sparkling adventures

under the sea!

ECHO REEF IS DOING tail flips because she’s going to see her favorite under-the-sea boy band, the Rays! They’re performing at her class mate Pearl’s birth day party, and everyone who goes to Trident Academy is invited. Everyone, that is, except Echo’s best friend, Shelly!

Echo doesn’t want to miss the Rays, but how can she even think of going to the party without her best friend? Can Echo convince Pearl to invite Shelly? Or will she have to come up with a plan—and a surprise—of her own?

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Cover designed by Karin Paprocki

Cover illustrations copyright © 2012

    by Tatevik Avakyan

Ages 6–9

Also by

Debbie Dadey

MERMAID TALES, BOOK 1:

TROUBLE AT TRIDENT ACADEMY

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Designed by Karin Paprocki

The text of this book was set in Belucian Book.

Library of Congress Control Number 2012930531

ISBN 978-1-4424-4979-4 (hc)

ISBN 978-1-4424-2982-6 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4424-2983-3 (eBook)

To Nixon Fow,

may you have many adventures

in your third year

Acknowledgment

Thanks to my daughter, Becky Dadey, who brings music to our

Reviews for Battle of the Best Friends

[K · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I loved when Shelly told the truth to echo,and I love the name echo