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"You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three "saints"...
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A.D. 531: the tiny island of Kell is said to be enchanted, inhabited by an extradinary creature who comforts shipwrecked sailors passing into the next world. Prince Aedan of the Isles believes in no such nonsense until he awakens on Kell itself and meets the sensuous siren who rescued him from the sea.
3) The mermaid
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2018.
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Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world and all its wonders, and so she came to live on land. Once there was a man called P.T. Barnum, a man who longed to make his fortune by selling the wondrous and miraculous, and there is nothing more miraculous than a real mermaid. Amelia agrees to play the mermaid for Barnum and walk among men in their world, believing she can leave...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"By sinking a fleet of Imperial Warships, the Pirate Supreme and their resistance fighters have struck a massive blow against the Emperor. Now allies from across the empire are readying themselves, hoping against hope to bring about the end of the conquerors' rule and the rebirth of the Sea. But trust and truth are hard to come by in this complex world of mermaids, spies, warriors, and aristocrats. Who will Genevieve--lavishly dressed but washed up,...
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"A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Penelope Schleeman, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher, is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel, "American Mermaid"--the story of a wheelchair-bound scientist named Sylvia who...
6) Sea spell
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Waterfire saga volume 4
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Astrid must confront her ancestor, Orfeo, the evil force behind the rise of the monster Abbadon, while Sera and her Black Fins train goblin troops for battle against her uncle Vallerio's death riders"--
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When the Imagine Network commissioned a documentary on mermaids, to be filmed from the cruise ship Atargatis, they expected what they had always received before: an assortment of eyewitness reports that proved nothing, some footage that proved even less, and the kind of ratings that only came from peddling imaginary creatures to the masses. They didn't expect actual mermaids. They certainly didn't expect those mermaids to have teeth. This is the story...
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Twisted tales (Disney books) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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What if Ariel had never defeated Ursula? It's been five years since the infamous sea witch defeated the little mermaid... and took King Triton's life in the process. Ariel is now the voiceless queen of Atlantica, while Ursula runs Prince Eric's kingdom on land. But when Ariel discovers that her father might still be alive, she finds herself returning to a world--and a prince--she never imagined she would see again.
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2015.
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"In this fantastical novel, the acclaimed author of Longbourn brings us the magical story of a young girl in search of her mother...who just might be a mermaid. Malin has always been different, and when her father dies, leaving her alone, her choice is clear: stay, and remain an outsider forever, or leave in search of the mythical inheritance she is certain awaits her. Apprenticed to a series of strange and wonderful characters, Malin embarks on a...
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While trying to fit in with her own kind, Fred, a mermaid who hates being out in open water, is torn between Artur, the High Prince of the merpeople, and Thomas, a gorgeous marine biologist who has the opportunity to explore where no "lander" has gone before.
12) The oyster thief
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"Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on aquest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight. Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth--while threatening merpeople...
13) A mermaid's kiss
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The angelic Jonah has been battling the Dark Ones for centuries. But his noble spirit has begun to tire with the weight of war allowing a Dark One to strike a blow that severs his wings and knocks him into the sea. Anna is a Daughter of Arianne, a direct descendant of the mermaid of legend. Anna's longing for love compels her to risk her very life to protect and hide the fallen Jonah. And the longer Jonah delays his return to the heavens, the more...
14) The seas
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Moored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of The Seas is a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid. True to myth, she finds herself...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Tidal Shores is a seaside town in decline, so the town council create a plan to bring in more tourism. A taxidermist combines an albino ape with a goliath tigerfish to create a "mermaid," which quickly takes center stage. Reporter Zoe Porter isn't convinced, but as mermaid mania sweeps the country, will anyone believe her story?
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Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A novel of coming out, surviving grief, and embracing myth in a Maine lobstering town purportedly founded when a sea captain fell in love with a mermaid 300 years ago. For readers of Madeline Miller, Alix E. Harrow, and Erin Morgenstern"--
17) Waking storms
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Lost voices trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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As a mermaid versus human war looms on the horizon, Luce falls in love with her sworn enemy Dorian and assumes her rightful role as queen of the mermaids.
18) Emerge
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Mer chronicles volume 1
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Month9Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Lia Nautilus may be a Mermaid, but she's never lived in the ocean. Ever since the infamous Little Mermaid unleashed a curse that stripped Mer of their immortality, war has ravaged the Seven Seas. Now Lia lives in a secret community of land-dwelling Mer hidden among Malibu's seaside mansions and attends high school with humans. To protect everyone around her, she must limit contact with non-Mer. No exceptions. But when the new girl sets her sights...
19) Sea witch
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Sea witch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss, drowning in her guilt. Then a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears offshore and, though the girl denies it, Evie is convinced that her best friend actually survived. That her own magic wasn't so powerless after all ... The rise of Hans Christian Andersen's iconic villainess is a heart-wrenching story of...
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Waterlilies volume 2
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Rebel without a pause.
Juna Lee Poinfax is a rebellious modern mermaid with a large checking account and a snarky attitude. When one of her escapades lands her in trouble with the worldwide Mer Council, she's forced to perform community service by luring a halfling (half-mer, half-human) to the Georgia coast for indoctrination as a mer person. That halfling, clueless children's book author Molly Revere, finds herself kidnapped,
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