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Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret

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Sink or Swim

Sarah Mlynowski · 165 pages

Once again Abby and her brother Jonah go through the magic mirror in their basement, and this time they find themselves interfering in the Little Mermaid story--and needing to set things right and make sure everyone has a happy ending.

Mermaids and SirensLightheartedMiddle GradeFantasy
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Peter and the Starcatchers

Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson · 451 pages

Le jeune Peter et quatre de ses amis quittent la maison de redressement pour embarquer de force sur le Never Land. A bord, Molly montre à Peter une malle remplie de poussière d'étoiles qui permet de voler. Ils unissent leurs forces pour la protéger du pirate Black Stache. Premier épisode d'une série sur la rencontre de Peter et Stache, les futurs Peter Pan et capitaine Crochet.

IslandMiddle GradeLightheartedFantasy
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Bay of Sighs

Nora Roberts · 420 pages

"Mermaid Annika is from the sea. Her purity and beauty are breathtaking, along with her graceful athleticism, as her five new friends discovered when they retrieved the fire star. Now through space and time, traveler Sawyer King has brought the guardians to the island of Capri, where the water star is hidden. And as he watches Annika in her element, he finds himself drawn to her joyful spirit. But

Mermaids and SirensIslandAdventureFantasy
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Syren

Angie Sage

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The Siren Song

Anne Ursu · 435 pages

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Forgive My Fins

Tera Lynn Childs · 333 pages

Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it's not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you're a normal teenage girl, but when you're half human, half mermaid, like Lily, there's no such thing as a simple crush.Lily's mermaid identity is a secret that can't get out, since she's not just any mermaid—she's

Mermaids and SirensLightheartedFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Pippi in the South Seas

Astrid Lindgren · 126 pages

In this Pippi Longstocking adventure Pippi and her friends Tommy and Annika, are off on their greatest adventure of all, a trip to Canny Island, the home of Pippi's cannibal king father. They explore caves and play marbles with real pearls, and the pirates and sharks they meet prove no match for Pippi! Suggested level: primary.

IslandLightheartedMiddle GradeAdventure
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Secret of the Sirens

Julia Golding · 357 pages

Upon moving to her aunt's seaside home in the British Isles, Connie becomes part of a secret society that shelters mythical creatures, and must use her ability to communicate with these beings to protect them from evil and the incursions of humans.

Mermaids and SirensMiddle GradeFantasyAdventure
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Stormswept

Helen Dunmore · 299 pages

Atmospheric and beautifully written novel from the award-winning author of INGO. Morveren lives with her parents and twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall, circled by the sea except at low tide. Morveren lives with her twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall, circled by the sea except at low tide. One day, Morveren finds a beguiling teenage boy in the rock pool

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Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery · 308 pages

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.

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My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett · 79 pages

A young boy runs away from home to rescue an abused baby dragon held captive to serve as a free twenty-four hour, seven-days-a-week ferry for the lazy wild animals living on Wild Island.

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Daughter of the Siren Queen

Tricia Levenseller · 364 pages

Alosa's mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders.

Mermaids and SirensFirst Person NarratorFantasyAdventure
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Merrow

Ananda Braxton-Smith · 236 pages

Enduring whispers about her absent mother's alleged merrow origins after her father drowns, twelve-year-old Neen questions her identity as she becomes increasingly torn between the worlds of the sea and her island home.

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The Water Mirror

Kai Meyer · 250 pages

In a place similar to Venice, Italy, two teenaged orphans, apprenticed to a maker of magic mirrors, begin to realize that their fates are tied to the magical protector of the city known as the Flowing Queen and to the ruler of Hell, respectively.

Mermaids and SirensMiddle GradeFantasyAdventure
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Molly Moon Stops the World

Georgia Byng · 375 pages

Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.

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Ice Massacre

Tiana Warner · 375 pages

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Aquamarine

Alice Hoffman · 105 pages

Hailey and Claire are spending their last summer together when they discover something at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. There in the depths is a mysterious and beautiful creature with a sharp tongue and a broken heart: a mermaid named Aquamarine who has left her six sisters to search for love on land. Now, as this mythological yet very real being starts to fade in the burni

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Talking to Dragons

Patricia C. Wrede · 255 pages

A fast paced, humorous YA science fiction. Young Daystar, raised by his mother Cimorene at the edge of the Enchanted Forest, is sent out on an adventure with a magical sword, meeting a young fire witch and an immature dragon on the way. This is the fourth book of the Enchanted Forest series, and takes place a generation after the first.

LightheartedMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorAdventure
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Ella Enchanted

Gail Carson Levine · 240 pages

This beloved Newbery Honor-winning story about a feisty heroine is sure to enchant readers new and old.  At her birth, Ella of Frell receives a foolish fairy's gift—the “gift” of obedience. Ella must obey any order, whether it's to hop on one foot for a day and a half, or to chop off her own head! But strong-willed Ella does not accept her fate... Against a bold backdrop of princes, ogres, g

Middle GradeLightheartedFirst Person NarratorFantasy
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The Demigod Files

Rick Riordan · 163 pages

In these top-secret files, Rick Riordan, Camp Half-Blood's senior scribe, gives you an inside look at the world of demigods that NO regular human child is allowed to see.These highly classified archives include three of Percy Jackson's most perilous adventures, a Spotter's Guide to Monsters, a Who's Who in Greek mythology, Percy's Summer Camp report and much more.So, if you're armed with this book

Middle GradeLightheartedAdventureFantasy
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The Girl of Ink and Stars

Kiran Millwood Hargrave · 240 pages

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Fish Out of Water

MaryJanice Davidson · 280 pages

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