The Thirteenth Year Link

: Cody Griffin, an adopted teen and star swimmer, begins experiencing bizarre changes on his 13th birthday.

: Cody must hide these changes from his peers and a local fisherman, Big John Wheatley, who is obsessed with proving mermaids exist. He enlists the help of his "nerdy" classmate, Jess, whose father happens to be the obsessed fisherman. The Thirteenth Year

: Symptoms include an unquenchable thirst, sticking to objects (like milk cartons), generating electricity, and growing scales when wet. : Cody Griffin, an adopted teen and star

: The film uses the fantastical premise of a boy turning into a merman to serve as a poignant, if sometimes literal, allegory for the physical and emotional turbulence of puberty. II. Plot Summary: The "Mer-Boy" Mystery : Cody Griffin