Natsume's Book of Friends, Volume 5, Paperback/Yuki Midorikawa
Some books describe the supernatural. This one brings it. Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for T audiences. Takashi thinks he's found a balance between yokai and friends when he goes with a group of classmates to a country inn for a marathon cram session before school starts again. But even the prosaic threat of homework can't keep the ``other world`` at bay, especially when the inn keeper has been dabbling in mermaid blood