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1) Selkie
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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.
2) Water shaper
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Having escaped from her father's control with help from a handsome holy man who is king of a western land, fifteen-year-old Princess Margot finally travels to the sea where her mother lived, and from which she can draw a powerful magic.
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1564
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Charlie Gale, a Wild Power, partners with a family of selkies to fight offshore oil drilling while her formidable Aunt Catherine is hired by the oil company to steal the selkies' sealskins.
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 7
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Fledgling Water Master Mari Prothero rebels against her expected arranged marriage at age eighteen until she learns that her family's magical heritage is actually protected by these unions.
7) The hidden
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While investigating the brutal attack on Gregor, a seemingly single man, DS Joanna Harper discovers that her estranged daughter Ruby is somehow involved in this case that is steeped in Celtic mythology.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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
A Sam London adventure volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When a selkie appears in the San Francisco bay, Sam London and the guardian Tashi are summoned by Dr. Vance Vantana of the Department of Mythical Wildlife to help track the creature down. Except unbeknownst to them, other forces are at work and the secret that mythical creatures exist and live amongst humans is in even bigger danger than ever before"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 31
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to the land of the mystical selkies to seek a magical sword for Merlin.
Author
Series
Emmeline Truelove volume 02
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove, north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by the artifact: a suit of clothing, which once belonged to a selkie who rose from the sea in ancient times and married the castle's first laird. But Haywood and Truelove soon...
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An earthly nourris sits and sings; And aye she sings, "Ba lilly wean, Little ken I my bairn's father, Far less the land that he staps in. (Child Ballad, no. 113). So begins a stunning tale of love, loss and revenge, against a powerful backdrop of adventure on the high seas, and drama on the land. The Blue Salt Road balances passion and loss, love and violence and draws on nature and folklore to weave a stunning modern mythology around a nameless,...
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many people assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong. When the Luidaeg--October "Toby" Daye's oldest and most dangerous ally--tells her the time has come for the Selkies to fulfill their side of the bargain, and that Toby must be a part of the...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl. Then one night, Morgan is saved from...