The first book of Kessler’s original “Emily Windsnap” series is intended for middle school students, with Emily turning 13. That night she sneaks out to swim in the ocean and discovers she is a mermaid! While honing her new skills, she encounters a mermaid named Shona, and the two quickly become friends. During Emily’s first swimming lesson she experiences the sensation of her legs locking together. When her school offers swimming classes she readily participates, thinking that if she could learn how to swim in the safety of an indoor pool her mother may be more supportive of her venturing into the ocean. She and her overprotective mother live near the ocean in a houseboat, but Emily, who is white, has never learned to swim. Gr 1-3–Young Emily Windsnap’s life is full of irony, risk taking, and self-discovery.
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