It’s city-girl Maddy’s first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surrounding. From the glimmering fireflies, to the glorious landscape, she loves being here. But there something else, deep within the water, that only she can see. Could it be a mermaid?

Maddy’s her grandmother shares wisdom about sayings and signs. Soon Maddy realizes she may be the only sibling to carry on her family’s magical legacy. When a disastrous oil leak threatens the bayou, she knows she may also be the only one who can help. But does she have what it takes to be a hero?

For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep Emily away from the water.

When Emily’s mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery. Emily finds out about the mysterious father she’s never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water’s surface.

The story follows Mira, a lonely mermaid kept captive in a boardwalk aquarium by Neptune, a greedy man who poses as her protective grandfather.

Neptune forces her to hide from visitors to maintain a lucrative, mythical mystery. Mira’s world expands when she secretly befriends a tourist girl named Livia. Inspired by Livia, Mira explores the outside world at night, uncovers Neptune’s lies, and realizes her tail transforms into legs on land. When a violent storm shatters the aquarium, Mira finally breaks free, finds her voice, and embraces her independence.

Set in Barbados, the story follows eleven-year-old Josephine, a mischievous cricket lover determined to keep her single father from dating.

However, a moment of frustration causes Josephine to cut into a sacred silk cotton tree, accidentally unleashing a mythical trap. Soon after, her dad brings home a glamorous new girlfriend named Mariss—who happens to be a vengeful water spirit.

To protect her father and village, Josephine must use her sharp wits and cricket skills to outsmart the ancient creature.

Annie Lumsden has hair that drifts like seaweed, eyes that shine like rock pools, and thoughts that dart and dance like minnows. She lives with her artist mother by the sea. Annie feels utterly at home with her mom. She feels different fromthe other girls at school. School is confusing, words and numbers on the page don’t make sense to her. Lately, she has had strange illnesses springing up that the doctors can’t explain.

Annie’s mother says that all things can be turned into tales. She often tells Annie stories about the rocks she paints, or the smoke from chimneys, or who Annie’s dad is.

But one day, Annie asks her mother for a different tale, and a stranger in town, drawn Annie, helps Annie understand how special she is.

Creep From the Deep by master of horror R.L. Stine is the spine-chilling second installment in the popular Goosebumps HorrorLand series.

While joining their marine biologist uncle, Dr. Deep, on a high-tech search for a sunken pirate ship, the duo gets more than they bargained for. A mysterious black cloud transports them into a supernatural “dead zone”. There, they face off against a crew of gruesome zombie pirates led by the terrifying, 200-year-old Captain Long Ben One-Leg, who is desperately hunting for his missing wooden leg.

After narrowly escaping the undead maritime threat, the narrative shifts to the series’ overarching mystery as the siblings receive invitations to HorrorLand. In this sinister theme park, their ocean nightmare crosses paths with new terrors, setting up an interconnected survival plot.

Set sail on the seven seas with this book about the most fearsome pirates the world has ever seen.

In this collection of daring deeds and awesome adventures from history prepare to be flabbergasted by:

* The time Julius Caesar was kidnapped by pirates
* Ching Shih, the Chinese woman who was the most successful pirate of all time
* The Russian river pirates who lay siege to medieval towns!

Tales of Pirates includes sagas of famous pirates like Blackbeard, Ching Shih and Francis Drake, as well as stories of buccaneers you might not have heard of, such as Grace O’Malley, who went to sea disguised as a boy and Sayyida al Hurra, a Moroccan queen turned privateer.

Alongside the gripping stories you’ll also learn about pieces of eight, different pirate flags, and even spend some time in Nassau in the Caribbean, the short-lived capital of the Republic of Pirates!

A treasure map where X marks the spot, a schooner set to sail, a one-legged seaman with a parrot on his shoulder, a boy whose bravery will be tested by murder, mutiny, and betrayal.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s well-loved tale is the ultimate swashbuckling adventure. Sweeping a path from the sleepy English coast to the raging high seas to a tropical island concealing a buried treasure, this story of friendship and greed, loyalty and courage stars an unforgettable cast of characters: young Jim Hawkins, the terrifying Blind Pew, the wild man Ben Gunn, and one of literature’s most dastardly villains, the charming, crafty, and utterly unscrupulous Long John Silver.