title: Emily Windsnap and the Falls of Forgotten Island
author:  Liz Kessler 
description: Emily's fast-paced, first-person narration lends immediacy to her latest quixotic quest, one that tests the bonds of friendship and closes with a surprising twist. Spot art reinforces the maritime theme; friendship and relationship angst ground the story emotionally...Exciting new adventures, risks, and mysteries for Emily Windsnap fans.<br />Kirkus Reviews<br /><br />This book has it all: tested friendships, danger, young love, fantasy, adventure, and mystery and all of this is wrapped up in secrets that are strategically revealed. Young readers wont be able to put this one down.<br />Story Monsters Ink
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  # Twillyweed
  
  
  ## A Claire Breslinsky Mystery
  
  
  ### Mary Anne Kelly
  
  
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  To my beautiful mother, Helen Kelly,
  
  
  who remembers Sea Cliff when …
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Prologue
  
  
  Rain blew sideways across the lid of the sea. There’d be no boats out there
  today. Noola tweaked the spiny parts from her geraniums. Still alive from last
  year, they had that tomato red you could see in Tyrolean window boxes. A
  wistfulness, the flowers were. All beauty spoke of yearning, she remembered,
  rocking in her chair.
  
  
  A gloved hand sliced the kitchen door apart in a blade of dark. Alight with
  pinpricks of intent, cold eyes attended her.
  
  
  Noola pulled the plaid rug nice and warm across her lap and sipped the fancy
  tea someone had brought. That abandoned lullaby from the beach blew up the
  cliff and through the grate. It had gone on 