Emily Windsnap and the Siren's Secret-Liz Kessler

Emily's life is finally perfect on Allpoints Island, but she feels like something's missing. She's home-sick. After finding out from Archie that Shiprock is under distress, Emily, her mom, Mr. Beeston, Aaron and his mom, and Millie all go to Emily's hometown, Brightport. Shona and her family return to Shiprock (the mermaid town near Brightport) Aaron and Emily get in trouble on their first day at Shiprock's mermaid school because the principle finds out they're semi-mers.

Also, Mandy doesn't remember ever being Emily's friend, but Emily and Aaron somehow break the memory drug's spell by holding hands and she remembers.

Shona and Emily go out in search for some lost sirens and Emily gets pulled by a current into a well and meets the old lost sirens. They're not very nice and think that the can get out only by a siren's song and since they lost their singing voices, they need another siren to help them. Shona finds the cave and her singing doesn't help. Aaron finds Emily and they break the curse, but only so they can get through. They take conch shell the best siren, Melody. They find the map inside of it of some deserted island. Mr. Beeston finds out about all this and goes to the cave. Melody just so happens to be his mother. Emily and Aaron go to Neptune and ask for him to break the curse for them all and let the sirens out. He does it under the conditions that Emily and the others up their efforts on stopping Brightport's development that's ruining Shiprock and also Neptune takes Emily and Aaron's power to undo his own power away. They ask Melody for help and she agrees. Before, Millie brought Emily's grandparents into town. They had been memory drugged and now they got the back and the drug's magic is gone. So now Emily's grandparents remember. There's a nice happy ending and I wouldn't want to spoil that too, but I like this series. It's probably my favorite Juvenile series, but I don't read many anymore. The mermaid phrases are pretty cute and I think that 12 year old Emily Windsnap seems more mature now that she's falling in love with Aaron. I wonder if this story is British or American. It's Mom not mum, and it uses dollars and not pounds, so I think that Liz Kessler made this more American based despite living in England.

~*Haley*