![]() ![]() ![]() It's not a bad story, but there's not a whole lot of character development and I rather found the way the mer-people had been controlling her mother for 12 years pretty creepy. I wouldn't not recommend it to adult readers, but it's definitely a younger kids' book with not a lot to it. All ends well when the family is reunited and swims away to live a new life on a secret merfolk island." Beeston her mother's dislike of water and her parents' love affair. Eventually, she finds her dad and comes to understand the truth about her oddly controlling neighbor, Mr. ![]() Danger, humor, confrontation, and even a trial before Neptune all play a part in her search. When Emily learns the intriguing history of the Shiprock community and of illegal marriages between humans and merpeople, she begins to look for her merman father. Below the waves, she meets Shona, also 12, who takes her to mermaid school and leads her on several adventures. Soon, she is secretly gliding through the water as a mermaid. She tries to hide her strange affliction, but something draws her to the sparkling surf. When she finally takes a swimming class at school, her legs turn into a fishtail. Here's how School Library Journal sums the book up: "Seventh-grader Emily Windsnap has never learned to swim, in spite of the fact that she and her mother live on a houseboat. :-) It's also about interspecies breeding and wrongful imprisonment, how's that for a children's story?! What else is the book about? Are you interested in reading the sequel? It's also a children's book. However, I've only read the back of the book. Jennie asked: From what I know, The Tail of Emily Windsnap is about being a mermaid. The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler ![]()
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