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Tempest Rising by Tracy Deebs Publication Date: May 10th, 2011 Published By: Walker Books for Young Readers Hardcover, 352 Pages Souce: ARC received from the author/ Teen Book Scene Blog Tour Summary: "Tempest Maguire wants nothing more than to surf the killer waves near her California home; continue her steady relationship with her boyfriend, Mark; and take care of her brothers and surfer dad. But Tempest is half mermaid, and as her seventeenth birthday approaches, she will have to decide whether to remain on land or give herself to the ocean like her mother. The pull of the water becomes as insistent as her attraction to Kai, a gorgeous surfer whose uncanny abilities hint at an otherworldly identity as well. And when Tempest does finally give in to the water's temptation and enters a fantastical underwater world, she finds that a larger destiny awaits her—and that the entire ocean's future hangs in the balance." My Review: **** = 4 Stars I was very eager to re...

 I'm so pleased to host Tracy Deebs today, author of the recently released Tempest Rising (Walker Books for Young Readers, May 10th, 2011). For Into the Past, the question is:  What books do you think your past self would recommend at ages 5, 12, 17 and 20? Please welcome Tracy! :) *** Thanks for having me, Sherry! I’ve been a huge reader my whole life, so your prompt made me very, very excited! At 5 , I would have recommended the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, The Little Mermaid, and any book that had Wonder Woman in it (I’m still a huge fan of both to this day)  Oh, and If I Ran the Circus by Dr. Seuss. At 12 , I probably would have recommended the Sweet Valley High series and Forever by Judy Blume. I also loved the Sunfire Historical YA series, where each book was a girl’s name and she lived in a different time in history (the gold rush, New Orleans during pirating times, the American Revolution). A new one came out each month and I devoured them. This was also th...