Salty Teens

YA fiction featuring pirates, mermaids, and adventure on the high seas.
Updated September 19, 2022
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi
Paper Book
Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book now with exclusive bonus content! The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content! A Newbery Honor Book* "A thrilling tale, tautly...
A Pirate's Life for She: Swashbuckling Women Through the Ages
Laura Sook Duncombe
Paper Book
Pirates are an enduring popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirate women--who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like--is seldom a part of the conversation. In this Seven Seas history of the world's female...
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
Mackenzi Lee
Paper Book
In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor--even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it...
Daughter of the Pirate King
Tricia Levenseller
Paper Book
A 17-year-old pirate captain intentionally allows herself to get captured by enemy pirates in this thrilling high seas tale. There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for. Sent on a mission to retrieve an...
In Other Lands
Sarah Rees Brennan
Ebook
Georgia Peach Award Nominee * Florida Teens Read Award Nominee * ABC Best Books for Young Readers * Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year * A Junior Library Guild Selection * Hugo & Locus award finalist In Other Lands ...
Sea Witch
Sarah Henning
Paper Book
Wicked meets "The Little Mermaid" in the captivating origin story of the sea's most iconic villainess, perfect for fans of Heartless and Dorothy Must Die. Ever since her best friend Anna died, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss,...
To Kill a Kingdom
Alexandra Christo
Paper Book
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER This action-packed YA debut pits a deadly siren princess and a siren-hunting human prince against each other as they fight to protect their kingdoms. Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts...
A Song Below Water
Bethany C. Morrow
Paper Book
Bethany C. Morrow's A Song Below Water is the story for today's readers -- a captivating modern fantasy about Black sirens, friendship, and self-discovery set against the challenges of today's racism and sexism. In a society determined to keep her under lock and...
All the Stars and Teeth
Adalyn Grace
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BELLADONNA SERIES! "Fierce and unrelenting...Do yourself a favor and get lost in this beautiful book!" --Tomi Adeyemi, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Children of Blood and Bone<...
In Deeper Waters
F. T. Lukens
Paper Book
"A frothy confection of sea-foam, young love, and derring-do." --NPR From the New York Times bestselling author of So This Is Ever After, a young prince must rely on a mysterious stranger to save him when he is kidnapped during his coming-of-age tour in this...
Luck of the Titanic
Stacey Lee
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl comes the richly imagined story of Valora and Jamie Luck, twin British-Chinese acrobats traveling aboard the Titanic on its ill-fated maiden voyage. Valora Luck has two things: a ticket...
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Paper Book
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate adventure that has thrilled readers for over a hundred years. Masterfully crafted, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas--an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary...
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C. S. Lewis
Paper Book
A beautiful paperback edition of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, book five in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by three-time Caldecott Medal-winning artist David Wiesner and black-and-white interior illustrations by the original illustrator,...
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Paper Book
In a world divided by colonialism and threaded with magic, a desperate orphan turned pirate and a rebellious imperial lady find a connection on the high seas. The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always done whatever it takes to survive--including sailing under false flag on the...
Peter and the Starcatchers
Dave Barry
Paper Book
Best-selling authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have turned back the clock and revealed a wonderful story that precedes J. M. Barrie's beloved Peter Pan. In an evocative and fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and...
Aquamarine
Alice Hoffman
Paper Book
Hailey and Claire discover a mermaid at the bottom of the murky pool at the Capri Beach Club. On the edge of growing up, they learn that life is unpredictable, friendship is forever, and that magic can be found in the most unexpected places.
The Girl from the Sea
Molly Knox Ostertag
Paper Book
From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first love.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...

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