Emily and Shona begin to figure out that Emily is able to become a mermaid just by chance and they also figure out that Emily’s father did not in fact run away when she was a baby. Then she meets another mermaid, Shona, a girl her own age who lives in the ocean in a secret mermaid world ruled over by Neptune.

Later that night she sneaks off the boat that is her home and slips into the water and there she verifies what she thought she saw in the pool soon after she enters the water her legs change into a tail and she becomes a mermaid.įor the next few nights Emily secretly explores this new self that she never knew she had. Emily knows that something else took place in the water and it terrifies her. The instructor says that she got a cramp and helps Emily to sit on the side of the pool. Her legs seem to get stiff and fused and she cannot move. So, Emily finally gets into a body of water for the first time and for a few delicious moments she loves it, swimming easily.

Now she has finally persuaded her mother to let her take swimming lessons in seventh grade and she is thrilled at the prospect. Even though she is twelve years old, Emily Windsnap has never learned how to swim.

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