Emily Windsnap

I've read this really cool book called The Tail of Emily Windsnap. It's about this girl who has never swam in a pool or anything even though she lives on a boat. But finally she bugs her mom enough to let her try swimming at her junior high school. During her lesson, she gets in the pool and feels right at home, but then a few seconds later, something happens to her legs! Her swim teacher said it was just a cramp, but Emily saw something and felt and felt something that her teacher didn't know about... Unable to resist the temptation, a few nights later she goes outside into the ocean and discovers she's a mermaid! Sort of. Her legs come back when she gets out. She meets another mermaid who invites her to her mermaid school for a day, and in the library with her friend's teacher she finds out that her father that supposedly left her when she was born was in the mermaid prison! And that he was arrested for marrying a human, something Neptune, the king, hates. She tries to swim there with her friend, but it's was much too far. So Emily steals their house-on-a-boat while her babysitter was asleep on the boat. Her mom and her mom's friend, the lighthouse keeper, catch them and after some whining on their part, became part of the crew. Emily's mermaid friend then pulls them to the Great Barrier Reef! Then Emily breaks into the Great Barrier Reef and meets her father there, but she has to leave without him because there's no escape from his room, but she learns he didn't leave them, after all! Then they are arrested by Neptune! Then Emily convices Neptune to let them go, as long as they allow themselves to be transported to an island far away. That's the end, but there is a sequel that I've never read, and it has something to do with her enemy Mandy turning into a mermaid. That's it for now, folks, so read The Tail of Emily Windsnap! I highly reccomend it!

Garth Nix

Have you read Garth Nix's series The Keys to the Kingdom? It's great! I've read all the ones that have come out and they're awesome! I wish I could read Superior Saturday but it comes out on July 7 so I can't read it until I can get it at the library or something. :( The Keys to the Kingdom is, in case you didn't know, a series about a boy named Arthur who's just a normal kid [Or so he thinks] except for the fact he's an asthmatic. He has an asthma attack, and during the attack he's given a Key. He thinks it's a hallucination BUT IT'S NOT. He's led on an adventure into The House where he meets Suzy Turquiose Blue and The Will. His job is to vanquish Mister Monday. But can he survive the task?....... If you haven't already read it, I suggest you do. It's really cool. But that's only a summary of the first book. There's more. The books in the series are Mister Monday, Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday, Sir Thursday, Lady Friday, Superior Saturday, and Lord Sunday. [ Saturday and Sunday aren't out yet. :( ] Read them all!