But a little spark of interest has come back into Emily's life, and it's not long before she's thrown herself into a new role as a volunteer nurse at the hospital where Stephen works. Emily's impressed with Stephen's knowledge, but he makes it clear that he hates the Park Avenue crowd.
The doctor brings a handsome medical student named Stephen Reed along on his house calls.
Everything changes when her little brother catches scarlet fever, and Emily makes a decision to stay in New York and care for him. She's not just bored with the Gilded Age, she's dangerously depressed over her stifling lack of options.Įmily has been reduced to wandering through life, feeling dull and empty, unable to enjoy the company of her cousin Annabelle and her best friend, Worthington Bates, and listlessly preparing for a trip to Europe she doesn't want to take. It's to be expected that a plucky Sunfire heroine would be bored by this, but Ransom takes it a few steps further with Emily. She literally has nothing interesting going on in her sharply regimented life. Yeah, they kinda did! Emily Blackburn is a ridiculously wealthy kid in turn-of-the-twentieth-century New York City. I hastily re-added it to my collection and curled up on the couch one day to see if my nostalgic feelings towards Emily would hold up. I looked back on this particular Sunfire quite fondly as one of my childhood favorites. This early chapter book contains a table of contents, five short chapters, and enchanting illustrations that tell the story on their own.(See my review of Amanda for my general review of the series.) This new title in the series depicts Emily at a much younger age, which creates a completely different time line this sequence could become confusing to readers who choose to follow Emily’s adventures as their reading skills advance. 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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