The Reluctant Little Mermaid

Young Samantha Turner is a typical middle-class teenager who's always loved the watersince she was real smallbut when her mother refuses to let her go swimming in neighbors' backyard swimming-poolsshe insists that her mother tell her whybut her mother is strangely reluctant to until Samantha forces her to admit what Samantha has been suspecting for a while now; she and her mother are mermaids.Samantha eventually learns that her mother and maternal grandparents were mermaids who decided to live amongst humans on dry-land.Eventually Samantha wants to go to an upstate sleep-away campbut her parents are reluctant to let her gobut she eventually convinces them to change their minds and it is at this sleep-away camp that Samantha meets a young boy named Bobbywho eventually informs Samantha that he is the male equivalent of a mermaid; a merman.Eventually Samantha and Bobby form a close unshakable bond.