Kessler uses this device to explore Porthaven's history, while untangling the reasons behind Grandad's disappearance and the magic that sets the events of the story in motion. As days pass, Mia exchanges notes with the diary's owner, a girl named Dee what Mia doesn't realize is that her notes are traveling back in time 50 years. But when she happens upon an abandoned fishing boat and a secret diary tucked inside she embarks on a time-bending journey.
Mia resigns herself to boring, gloomy days in Porthaven with no cell phone or Internet connection. When Mia's grandfather suddenly goes missing, she grudgingly gives up time with her friends to accompany her mother to her grandparents' fishing village hometown, so they can help Mia's grandmother.
She dips under the surface, and pushing off. The water is a wonderful surprise, surrounding her and feeling as normal as though she’d been submersed in it her entire life not for the first time today. The two are happy to be friends, and as she sneaks back home, Emily looks forward to more underwater adventures.In Kessler's (the Emily Windsnap series) seaswept novel, a mysterious disappearance leads 13-year-old Mia to uncover a long-held family secret. Emily Windsnap is beginning high school and finally convinces her mother that she should join the swimming classes being offered. One night she sneaks out to take a dip in the ocean, and she feels her legs turning into a fin! When she gets caught in some rocks, she is saved by Shona, another mermaid who is surprised that Emily didn't know she was a mermaid. The instructor tells her it was just a cramp, but Emily is suspicious. She starts to feel very strange in the water and has to be helped out. Emily isn't happy with this, since she sees her friends having fun, but she gets a clue as to why her mother is keeping her out of the water when swim classes are held at school. Emerging readers can get a good introduction to Emily, a girl who discovers she is half-human and half-mermaid with this early reader book.Įven though Emily and her mother live on a boat, her mother won't let her play in the ocean because she thinks it is too dangerous, and you never know what it out there in the water.
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Tired, she finally pulls herself up onto a rock to rest. She leaves the bay and swims through cold and warm patches, noting the sandy or sea urchin bottom.
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