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. But how could she have dreamed that her best friend, Shona, would stop talking to her, or that Mandy Rushton, her old enemy from junior high, would turn up when least expected?įollow the siren call to Emily’s magical new 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. As the Kraken rises from the deep, putting the future of the islanders in jeopardy, Emily makes a desperate attempt to save them. That is, until Emily ruins everything by waking a legendary sea monster known as the Kraken from its hundred year sleep. To Emily Windsnap half mermaid, half human her new home is perfect. Picture an island set in a glittering blue sea, sparkling with white sand and palm trees, a secret place where humans and merfolk live together and where a girl who grows a mermaid’s tail when she enters the water is not considered a problem. Strongly plotted, it deals with universal themes of families, friendship, love and justice all handled with a lightness of touch and an assurance that marks Liz Kessler out as a highly accomplished writer.Įmily Windsnap and the Monster from the DeepĪn enchanting tale with a fabulous monster, engaging characters, plenty of mermaid magic, and a page turning story, Liz Kessler’s new middle grade fantasy has all the charm and warmth of its predecessor, THE TAIL OF EMILY WINDSNAP. This enchanting fantasy, with its vivid scenes of a brilliantly realized underwater world, tells the story of a delightful and wholly believable girl.
And in an unexpected and exciting denouement she reunites the family at last. She learns how her mother fell in love with a merman, how her father was snatched away when Emily was a baby, and how her mother’s memory was blocked by an agent of the merfolk.
As soon as she gets into the sea, she grows a tail! Now Emily dives under water to explore a glorious world of fishes, coral, shipwrecks and, of course, mermaids. Emily lives on a boat, but her mother has always been oddly anxious to keep her out of the water, and it is only when she has her first school swimming lesson that she discovers it is her natural element.
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