The tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kesseler is an interesting fiction story a girl named Emily finds out that she is half mermaid. It all starts of when Emily mother lets Emily take swimming lessons. Which Emily had been begging her mother to let her do so for years. However, once in the pool she notices that her legs get numb and she gets out of the pool as fast as she could. Emily decided to go swimming again by her house to find out what was going on with her legs once in the water. It turn out that every time she went into the water her legs would become a tail. She was a mermaid. After that, Emily was very shocked and did not want to get back in the pool at school. Therefore, she would lie about injuries so people would not see
