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There has always been something unusual about Magnus Fin, a school misfit. On his eleventh birthday Magnus throws a message in a bottle out to sea, wishing for a best friend and to be more brave -- and he gets a lot more than he bargained for. Magnus discovers that he is half selkie -- part seal, part human -- and his selkie family urgently need his help. Can Magnus save his new-found family from the evil force threatening all the ocean's creatures?...
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On his eleventh birthday, schoolboy Magnus Fin found out that he was half selkie - part human, part seal. Although he looks like a boy and lives on land, he can breathe underwater. When Magnus Fin discovers his initials scratched into the rocks by the shore and finds dead seals washed up on the beach, he knows his selkie family needs his help, and he dives down beneath the waves to find out more. The great seal sickness has struck and his grandmother...
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On his eleventh birthday, schoolboy Magnus Fin found out that he is half selkie, part human, part seal. Although he looks like a boy and lives on land, he can breathe underwater. When a rusty metal chest is flung ashore in a storm, Magnus Fin decides to investigate. But he injures his hand on the strange box, and his sealskin starts to show through. His teacher realizes that there's something very unusual about Magnus Fin, and rumors start to spread....
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Helen and her fabled-beast friends help Rona the selkie in a Storm Singer competition. Rona wins by singing up an incredible storm, but part of the prize is to represent the selkies in a much bigger contest. Rona must compete in three gruelling challenges against a mermaid and a blue loon, and carry an important message between the deep sea powers, which will stop them going to war. She desperately needs the help of Helen and her friends. But a giant...
5) The turning
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"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?"--
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Hidden world of Changers volume 4
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Fiona embarks on a journey to find her mother and unlock her selkie magic.
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"In a land where people flow between ocean and land, a seal and a fisherman sing together under a glowing moon. One in a series of short stories that explore the deeper, darker side of our connection with the natural world. For older children and adults, inspired by ancient folk tales. Feel a little bit of magic, a few shivers down the spine"--Back cover.
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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.
12) Troll Mill
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Troll trilogy volume 2
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Eos
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c2006
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When fifteen-year-old Peer Ulfsson witnesses the disappearance of his neighbor's wife, rumored to be a seal-woman, he must help protect the baby she leaves behind from trolls, a witch, and other creatures.
13) Selkie
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Starfish Bay Children's Books
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2019.
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Selkie is a wordless picture book that tells the tale of a tender friendship between two unlikely beings. When a young fisherman falls into the sea, he is rescued by a playful seal. One transformation later, a new friendship is formed. This wordless story will evoke readers' imaginations and allow them to complete the narrative themselves.
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
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2004
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A poor Welsh fisherman bears two children with a selkie - half-woman, half-seal - before she returns to the sea with her own people. The villagers hear a strangers' stories of better far off lands where life could be easier and the two children go to their mother for help.
15) The selkie girl
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Picture Kelpies
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2014.
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Adaptation of the traditional Scottish folk tale of the selkie (a seal who can become human). Shonagh's seal skin is found by a lonely little boy. Will Fergus and the selkie girl become friends?
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Sam London adventures volume 2
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[2018]
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"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"--
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