With a sure sense of suspense and richly imaginative details, first-time author Liz Kessler lures us into a glorious undersea world where mermaids study shipwrecks at school and Neptune rules with an iron trident - an enchanting fantasy about family secrets, loyal friendship, and the convention-defying power of love. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery - about her own identity, the mysterious father she’s never met, and the thrilling possibilities and perils shimmering deep below the water’s surface. EMILY WINDSNAP AND THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN Natacha Ledwidge (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating 143 GoodReaders Word Count: 54,648 Page Count: 288 Accelerated Reading level: 4.1 / points: 8.0 AR quiz: 157168 Lexile: 600L-sample pages available EMILY WINDSNAPS FIN-TASTIC FRIENDSHIP BOOK 4. ABOUT THE TAIL OF EMILY WINDSNAP The New York Times best-selling seriesA young girl learns shes half mermaid and plunges into a scheme to reunite with her. She admits that she wants to tell Emily about him, but the embarrassing truth is that she can’t remember, claiming her memories disappeared just. Before Emily's first kick turn she feels her legs melding into a tail. One of my favorite lines from the book: You can’t make people stop loving each other just because a law says it’s wrong. There are plenty of mermen in the story tooafter all, not only little girls dream of the sea. Emily Windsnap is a 13-year-old female human-mermaid hybrid who narrates the Emily Windsnap series. Despite never having had a lesson, she takes to the water like, well, a fish. The Tail of Emily Windsnap is a fun adventure that I think both boys and girls would enjoy. For a time, she doesn’t answer, and then finally admits that she doesn’t know what to say. 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. And, oddly enough, for just as long, her mother has seemed anxious to keep Emily away from the water. At breakfast the following morning, Emily asks her mother why she never speaks of her father. Her mother is human but her father was a merman who fell in love with her, and. Emily is a mermaid, or at least part mermaid. Emily has a secret that she fears sharing with anyone but her readers. She has just longer than shoulder length brown hair that she usually wears loose. Annotation: A young girl learns she’s half mermaid and plunges into a scheme to reunite with her father in this entrancing, satisfying tale that beckons readers far below the waves.For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. Emily is just beginning high school at Brightport. ![]() Author: Gibb, Sarah (ILT) / Kessler, Liz.
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