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Hex Hall

Rachel Hawkins · 336 pages

Hidden IdentityLightheartedYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

Hidden IdentityLightheartedYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Paranormalcy

Kiersten White · 327 pages

Sixteen-year-old Evie has always taken comfort in the fact that she is a normal human, even though her best friend is a mermaid and her ex-boyfriend is a lunatic - and a faery. In a world where paranormals are monitored and controlled, Evie works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency because of her unique ability to see through glamours. But someone - or something - starts killing va

Hidden IdentityLightheartedYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Tail of Emily Windsnap

Liz Kessler · 208 pages

For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep her away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery - about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering

Mermaids and SirensLightheartedFirst Person NarratorSeries Starter
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Runaway

Meg Cabot · 310 pages

Sometimes what we ask for isn't what we really need and ends up being far from what we actually want. Emerson Watts is the right-hand girl to big star Nikki, but it seems that there aren't enough positive points about this job to make it truly worthwhile, no matter how it looks to outsiders. Emerson Watts is on the run: from school, from work, from her family, from her friends, from herself. As

Hidden IdentityLightheartedYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Ruby Red

Kerstin Gier · 352 pages

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon--

Young AdultHidden IdentityLightheartedFirst Person Narrator
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Secrets of My Hollywood Life

Jen Calonita · 285 pages

The filming for sure-to-be-blockbuster movie Pretty Young Assassins has wrapped, and teen movie star Kaitlin Burke returns to life on the set of primetime drama Family Affair. After ten seasons of filming the hit favorite TV show, Kaitlin would have thought that she could see any curveballs coming, but with a plotting new actress on set, all bets are off. The new diva, Alexis, makes even Kaitlin's

LightheartedHidden IdentityYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Tempest Rising

Tracy Deebs · 344 pages

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorSeries Starter
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Waterfell

Amalie Howard · 364 pages

Disguised as a human teen while waiting for the day she can claim her birthright as heir to her murdered father's undersea kingdom, Nerissa Marin is challenged to a battle to the death by her family's betrayer when she comes of age.

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Fish Out of Water

MaryJanice Davidson · 280 pages

Mermaids and SirensLightheartedFunnyFemale Lead
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Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1

Bisco Hatori · 184 pages

A female scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School ends up working for the school's swankiest club after she stumbles upon the all-male Host Club--who mistake her for a boy--and accidentally destroys a valuable vase. While working off her debt, she learns how the other half really lives.

Hidden IdentityLightheartedYoung AdultSeries Starter
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Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead · 352 pages

St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school-it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's-the very place where they're most in danger...Rose and Lissa b

Hidden IdentityYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorSeries Starter
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Wings

Aprilynne Pike · 305 pages

When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a fairy and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.

Hidden IdentityYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorLighthearted
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Daughter of the Pirate King

Tricia Levenseller · 336 pages

A 17-year-old pirate captain intentionally allows herself to get captured by enemy pirates in this thrilling YA adventure.

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorSeries Starter
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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFemale Lead
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Tapping the Billionaire

Max Monroe · 376 pages

LightheartedHidden IdentityFirst Person NarratorSeries Starter
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Of Poseidon

Anna Banks · 331 pages

Galen, prince of the Syrena, is sent to land to find a girl he's heard can communicate with fish. He finds Emma and after several encounters, including a deadly one with a shark, Galen becomes convinced Emma holds the key to his kingdom. Galen, the prince of Syrena, is sent to land to find a girl who communicates with fish. He finds Emma and after several encounters, including a deadly one wit

Mermaids and SirensYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFemale Lead
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The Secret Life of a Teenage Siren

Wendy Toliver · 304 pages

Mermaids and SirensLightheartedYoung AdultFunny
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Jenny Han · 384 pages

What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Covey keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would nev

LightheartedYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Accidentally Fabulous

Lisa Papademetriou · 187 pages

Amy Flowers moved her school to Allington Academy, the most expensive and high-class in the states and she doesn't know anyone there. But thankfully, her rich cousin Jenelle who also go to Allington, help her to fit in this school. But later she discover that she was the League, the most popular crew in here at Allington, and the queen bee Fiona Von Steig, the captain of the crew didn't like Amy o

Hidden IdentityLightheartedYoung AdultFunny
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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 SirensLightheartedFirst Person NarratorFunny
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You Are So Undead to Me

Stacey Jay

Q: HOW MANY ZOMBIES DOES IT TAKE TO RUIN A SOCIAL LIFE?A: NOT MANY.Megan Berry is a Zombie Settler by birth, which means she's part-time shrink to a whole bunch of semi-dead people with killer issues. All Megan really wants is to go to homecoming, but when you're trailed by a bunch of slobbering corpses whenever you leave the house, it's kinda hard to score a date. Let's just say Megan's love life

LightheartedYoung AdultFirst Person NarratorFemale Lead
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