Mermaids, Sirens & Other Sea Creatures
Annotation:14yr-old Jade feels like a freak when she finally gets her period while trying on a tankini at the mall. But “freak-of-nature” takes on a whole new meaning when raging hormones bring on another metamorphosis complete with scales and a tail. (Part of a series)
Annotation:17yr-old Lily, half-mermaid and half-human, has been living on land and attending school, where she has a crush on a boy but is afraid to tell him her true destiny. (Part of a series)
Annotation:On her seventeenth birthday, Tempest must decide whether to remain a human and live on land or submit to her mermaid half, like her mother before her, and enter into a long running war under the sea.
Annotation:When her estranged grandmother dies and leaves her mother the family home on Selkie Island, 17-yr-old Miranda meets her mother on the Georgia island, where she discovers mysterious family secrets and another side to her logical, science-loving self.
Annotation:After a terrible tragedy, Lexi, a mermaid destined to lure men to their deaths, shuts herself off from the world, vowing to protect the ones she loves. But she’s soon caught between a new boy at school who may have the power to melt her icy exterior, and a handsome water spirit who says he can break Lexi’s curse.
Annotation:In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, 15yr-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter. (Part of a series)
Annotation:Lena, almost sixteen, has always felt drawn to the waters of San Francisco Bay despite the fears of her father, a former surfer, but after she glimpses a beautiful woman with a tail, nothing can keep Lena from seeking the mermaid in the dangerous waves at Magic Crescent Cove.
Annotation:The gods grant immortality to the mermaid Sirena when she rescues a human man from the sea and they fall in love, but his mortality creates great conflict when he is called to defend Greece in the Trojan War.
Annotation:When a mermaid attempts to lure her into the sea, 14-yr-old Adrianne, who lives in a superstitious island community, must choose between the promise of an underwater paradise and those she loves.
Annotation:Strange things have been happening in 17-yr-old Will’s Long Island Town, where his brother died last summer, but now their life-long friend, Gretchen, is in danger and the mysterious newcomer, Asia, may be involved.
Annotation:Assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of her Alaskan fishing village by her abusive uncle, 14-yr-old Luce expects to die when she falls into the icy waters below, but when she instead transforms into a mermaid she is faced with struggles and choices she could never have imagined. (Part of a series)
Annotation:After her sister’s sudden death, 17-yr-old Vanessa investigates a series of inexplicable drownings off the coast of Winter Harbor, Maine, and uncovers an unimaginable secret that changes everything. (Part of a series)
Annotation:15-yr-old Spencer falls in love with Lilly, a mermaid who rescues him and who returns to land to find him.
Annotation:The Dashwood sisters are evicted from their home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets.
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