Ingo by Helen Dunmore - As they search for their missing father near their Cornwall home, Sapphy and her brother Conor learn about their family's connection to the domains of air and of water
The tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler - After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world
Hannah by Kathryn Lasky - In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and at a summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea
Sink or swim by Sarah Mlynowski - Abby and her brother Jonah go through the magic mirror in their basement and find themselves interfering in the Little Mermaid story
Bad mermaids make waves by Sibéal Pounder - Mermaids Beattie, Mimi, and Zelda are summoned back from a summer on land to save their underwater world from some seriously bad mermaids
The islander by Cynthia Rylant - Living with his grandfather on an island off British Columbia, orphaned ten-year-old Daniel feels deep loneliness until the night he meets a mermaid whose identity he tries to learn
Fairy tail ending by Suzanne Selfors - Mermaid princess Meeshell knows that someday she will leave her sea kingdom and live on land, but a change in the tides leads her to attend Ever After High, where she wonders if she will be able to fit in
The dragon in the sea by Kate Klimo - Jesse and Daisy and their dragon friend, Emmy, try to recover a Thunder Egg from merpeople who stole it from Daisy near the Inn of the Barking Seal, where the cousins are visiting their grandmother Polly
A comb of wishes by Lisa Stringfellow - Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a magical mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island