Every Child Can be a Reading Star When a mermaid goes for a swim, she gets lost in a kelp maze. How will she find her way home? The Lost Mermaid is part of the Reading Stars series. Reading Star books are for kids at the very beginning of a lifetime love of reading. Each book features fewer than 50 words and uses repetition to build confidence. The Lost Mermaid is 24 pages long and features 29 different sight words for your child to master. The words are: a, and, boat, for, forest, go, got, how, in, it, kelp, like, lost, maze, mermaid, out, past, reef, she, swam, swim, the, thick, time, to, up, was, went, will