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2) Mermaids
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Did you know that mermaids live alongside other sea creatures? In most stories, they are shy and tend to hide from humans. Learn more about these mythical creatures in [this book]." -- Goodreads.com
Description
When Saoirse and Ben's mother mysteriously disappears into the ocean, the two children go on an epic journey to find out the truth about her, and in the process, discover mystical secrets about both their mother and Saoirse herself. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.
6) The turning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"Aran has never truly fit in with his selkie clan. He was born in his human form, without a pelt to transform him into a sleek, strong seal. Each day he waits, left behind while his selkie family explores the deep ocean. What if his pelt never comes?"--
9) Sealskin
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"What happens when magic collides with reality? Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives; not only his own, but those of his family and the entire tightly knit community in which they live. Can he ever atone for the wrong he has done, and can love grow when its foundation is violence? Based on the legend...
10) The selkie song
Author
Series
Hidden world of Changers volume 4
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Fiona embarks on a journey to find her mother and unlock her selkie magic.
11) Selkie
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
When a greedy oysterman captures a selkie, a seal that turns into a girl, a boy outwits him and returns her to the sea and wins her reward.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Selkie Bay is a place where the old legends seem very near, and eleven-year-old Cordelia believes that her secretive mother is a selkie who has returned to the sea--a belief that offers some hope as she struggles to care for her two younger sisters and help her scientist father makes ends meet in their home by the sea.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
After the body of a man washes up on the shore of the Scottish island of Bancree, suspicion falls on a man and his daughter who have recently moved there, but Flora is convinced of their innocence and suspects the mythical creatures known as "selkies" to be the killers.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Finally free from her controlling parents, Gwen Cook, while helping her grandmother run her Victorian inn on the coast of Northern California, falls in love with a mysterious boy named Jessie who is harboring a dark secret.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jenn McDaniel's life on Whidbey Island becomes more complicated and her relationships with old and new friends take strange turns, partly due to the arrival of a woman researching a strange black seal.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Home from the Sea is the eighth book in the Elemental Masters series. This story combines East of the Sun and West of the Moon, as well as Tam Lin, with the Selkie of Sul Skerry. We'll see Nan and Sarah (from Wizard of London) as adults, coming into their own, and Grey and Neville, of course!
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings--and to catch their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast. And for a price a man may buy himself a lovely sea-wife. He may have and hold and keep her. And he will tell himself that he is her master. But from his first look into those wide, questioning, liquid eyes, he will be just as transformed as she....
18) Song of the sea
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Saoirse and her brother Ben encounter a host of ancient and mythical characters on their journey to preserve the spirit world, awaken Saoirse's own magical powers, and discover secrets of their family's past.