![]() The jewel-toned jacket art and ink-wash illustrations sprinkled throughout add girlish charm to an imaginative story. Coincidences drive the plot Shona has recently studied illegal mermaid-human marriages in school a creepy lightkeeper drops a key that unlocks a treasure chest containing a file spelling out the entire backstory. Emily Windsnap is a series of childrens fantasy novels written by British author Liz Kessler, inaugurated by The Tail of Emily Windsnap in 2003 and continuing as of 2020. That is, until Emily ruins everything by waking a legendary sea monster known as the kraken from its hundred-year sleep. Newcomer Kessler anchors her fantasy in the nitty-gritty of adolescence: Emily bests a bully who comes close to guessing her secret, and she finds a best friend in Shona, a mermaid she meets during her nightly swims. To Emily Windsnap half mermaid, half human her new home is perfect. At night, she sneaks from the boat where she lives with her mother to explore the undersea world, and unravel the mystery of her genetics which involves her long-missing, never-discussed father. She hops out of the water before she can be branded a freak, but she's hooked. Fantasy Age Level: Middle Grade (Ages 8-12) Series Rating: Get Our Newsletter The Emily Windsnap Series in Order (9 Books) Book Descriptions for series: Emily Windsnap The Tail of Emily Windsnap Sep-2003 Book - 1 Everybody has a secret. Before Emily's first kick turn she feels her legs melding into a tail. Despite never having had a lesson, she takes to the water like, well, a fish. Emily Windsnap is an ordinary girl who happens to find out that when she goes in water, she becomes a mermaid. Everyone's favorite half-mermaid is back with a splash in a sparkling adventure her fans will be eager to get their fins on.Pre-teen girls will likely bite at this novel's tempting bait, offered in the opening lines: "Can you keep a secret? Everybody has secrets, of course, but mine's different." Emily Windsnap, who narrates, is half-mermaid, as she discovers, inconveniently, in her seventh-grade swim class. Emily Windsnap is finally enjoying a swimmingly peaceful life on Allpoints Island, hanging out with her mermaid BFF, Shona, and her new friend Aaron (half-merperson like herself ). Beeston, figuring out her feelings toward Aaron, and untangling a high-suspense mystery related to a group of legendary lost sirens. There are just a few snags for Emily, however, like dealing with old nemeses Mandy and Mr. Emily is delighted when her family returns to Brightport, but their attempts to follow Neptune's orders to bring humans and merfolk together seem doomed. Neptune's mandate? No less than an interspecies intervention to bring merpeople and humans together, a task the imperious god feels the mixed Windsnap family is well suited for. Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret: Book 4. Emily Windsnap girl on land, finned creature in the water its a discovery that spurs not only breathtaking escapades and brushes with high suspense, but also issues of friendship and family that resonate with middle-grade fans everywhere. But their idyll is cut short when Emily learns that the Windsnaps and friends must return to their old home in Brightport, where construction projects are threatening a secret mermaid community under the sea. ![]() The New York Times best-selling series Follow the siren call to Emily's magical adventure! Can the spunky half-mer girl pass Neptune's test-and help humans and merpeople get along? Emily Windsnap is finally enjoying a swimmingly peaceful life on Allpoints Island, hanging out with her mermaid BFF, Shona, and her new friend Aaron (half-merperson like herself ).
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