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"All Emily Windsnap wants to do is impress her best friend, Shona, and the other mermaids who live in the sea around Allpoints Island. But instead, she wakes up with the kraken, a terrifying octopus-like monster the size of an apartment building. Now he's coming after everything and everyone, and it's up to Emily to stop him. Luckily she's got help from Shona and one other person--someone Emily hoped never, ever to see again."--Back cover.

Neptune, King of the ocean, sends half-mermaids Emily and Aaron to the land of the midnight sun to investigate the source of the dangerous storms brewing in the ocean.

After finally convincing her mother that she should take swimming lessons, twelve-year-old Emily discovers a terrible and wonderful secret about herself that opens up a whole new world.

Spending the summer in Maine with her grandfather, fourteen-year-old India Finch is still exploring her new healing powers as one of the merpeople, and still trying deal with the conflicts between the two Mer tribes--so when she and her friends find out that the Fire tribe is searching for a powerful weapon called Neptune's trident which they will use against humans, they decide that they had better find it first.

Twelve-year-old, Emily Windsnap discovers she is a mermaid during swimming lessons and finally reunited with her merman father and is faced with many adventures.