Mermaid Tales Books in Order

Kiki’s class at Trident Academy is visiting humpback whales near the ocean’s surface. While her classmates look forward to the trip, Kiki fears the enormous animals and must find the courage to join the adventure.

Echo is invited to Pearl’s birthday party, where her favorite boy band will perform, but Shelly is left out. The friends must navigate Pearl’s exclusion and find a way to enjoy the celebration without abandoning each other.

Shark sightings leave Pearl frightened and suspicious, even with a guard escorting her to school. When she accuses Kiki of stealing her necklace, danger in the water becomes entangled with a challenge to their friendships.

Shelly Siren starts at Trident Academy with her best friend Echo, hoping to fit in among the other merstudents. An argument over their first assignment gives troublemaker Pearl an opening to make their friendship more difficult.

Shelly discovers that she is a princess, and the news changes how everyone at Trident Academy sees her. Unsure about crowns, palaces, and royal behavior, she must decide how to embrace her heritage while remaining herself.

Echo loves sea horses and wants a pet of her own after discovering that a classmate has one. Her determination clashes with questions about whether these gentle creatures would be happier swimming freely in the ocean.

Shelly prepares to meet her great-aunt, Queen Edwina, for tea and worries about behaving like a princess. A rumor that the queen will take her to Neptune’s Castle makes her fear losing her home, grandfather, and friends.

Kiki has a vision of Rocky encountering a gigantic leatherback turtle and fears he is in danger. With few people ready to believe her prediction, she must work out how to protect her classmate.

A seaweed scroll points to a pirate ship filled with jewels, and Pearl recruits Rocky and Wanda for a treasure hunt. Warnings about ghosts seem easy to dismiss until eerie noises greet them inside the wreck.

Echo discovers a mysterious human object and wants to keep it for herself, but her older sister Crystal claims it. After their mother confiscates the prize, the sisters must learn to cooperate if they want it back.

Shelly and her friends spend a week at Neptune’s Castle, enjoying royal hospitality and the prospect of a ball. When the tiara Queen Edwina gives Shelly disappears, their holiday becomes a race to solve the theft.

Kiki and her mermaid friends want to help a lost baby polar bear get home. The cost of transporting it creates a difficult choice, since paying for the rescue may mean missing a concert by their favorite band.

Pearl expects to star in her class production of The Little Human, but Wanda wins the lead while Pearl becomes the sea witch. Her disappointment threatens both the show and her friendship with Wanda.

Kiki starts a book club to share stories and make new friends. Pearl launches a competing club that threatens to draw everyone away, forcing Kiki to confront a rivalry between the pleasures of reading and appearances.

Echo injures her tail after falling from a sea horse, just before an important Tail Flippers competition. Unable to perform her usual tricks, she must find another way to support her friends and help the team succeed.

Pearl feels excluded when her friends are chosen as flower girls for Mr. Fangtooth and Lillian’s wedding. Determined to join the ceremony, she takes over the planning and creates expensive problems she must find a way to repair.

Shelly travels to Atlantis with her Shell Wars team for the championship. After spotting a supposedly cursed spookfish, a run of mishaps makes her question whether the legend could ruin her team’s chances of winning.

An aunt’s story about a fairy that tangles sleeping mermaids’ hair sends Echo searching for proof. With Shelly and Kiki, she follows a homemade fairy-hunting plan to Sperm Whale Mountain, hoping to discover whether the creatures are real.

A code-breaking contest will decide which merstudent gets to show a visiting young narwhal around Trident City. As competition grows fierce, Kiki, Echo, and Shelly find their friendship threatened by the chance to win.

Pearl is chosen as Winter Princess and must prepare a speech for the festival. Meanwhile, her parents are adopting a baby brother, leaving her worried about losing their attention while her friends help with her new responsibilities.

Pearl helps plan Shelly's birthday celebration, which grows into a sleepover at a museum. A scavenger hunt, ghost stories, and mysterious glowing lights give the young mermaids more excitement than they expected from the party.

Echo feels jealous of new student Anita's popularity, then learns their planned Titanic excursion is inaccessible to Anita's wheelchair. As friends consider a boycott, Echo must decide how to respond to the exclusion.