Looking for Emily
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By Fiona Longmuir
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9 reviews
A hugely gripping, fast-paced mystery adventure, with brilliant twists and turns, from a fresh and exciting new voice in children’s books.
When twelve-year-old Lily moves to the sleepy seaside town of Edge, she’s sure that nothing exciting is ever going to happen to her again. But when she stumbles upon a secret museum hidden in the middle of town, she realises that there might be more to her new home than meets the eye.
The Museum of Emily is filled with the belongings of one seemingly ordinary girl – a girl who, many years ago, disappeared from the town without a trace. With the help of her new friends Sam and Jay, Lily is determined to solve the mystery and find out who Emily was, why she disappeared and who has created the strange, hidden museum.
With a one-of-a-kind mystery, a brilliant trio of protagonists, and an action-filled story, Looking for Emily is the unmissable middle grade debut of 2022.
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An amazing book for adventurous people and a great page turner.
it was amazing it hooked me from the first page
The way that this book starts is excellent, a gentle mood. But then I generally think that there were so many things going on during the middle. Maybe the pace of this book could be slowed down a tiny bit. There's a great mystery waiting to be solved, so that's the genre. Read this book if you like mysteries. The lives of Lily (a girl who has just moved into the sleepy seaside town of Edge) and Emily (a girl living further back in the past whose mother mysteriously disappeared and then lived with her older sister Caitlyn) flip between each other, though it's mostly Lily. As you'll find if you read this book, there's a most mysterious man lurking around Edge and it seems as if he's up to no trouble. The mystery is so big, surely you'd like to solve it with Lily and her friends...
Pretty good adventure story, would recommend for anyone who likes adventure story’s and for ages 10 to11
Really enjoyed the seaside setting and the characterisation in this book. The descriptions of the beach, the water and the weather were superbly evocative - I was transported to Edge! The interplay between the three friends was realistic and great fun. This will be a winner in the class library, I'm sure!
Really good and exciting
I recommend it
Great mystery book.
I LOVED this book!!!! It was so gripping, the story of Lily, the new girl in town learning to make friends. Walking home from school, she stumbles upon a green door and a sign that says : The Museum of Emily. With her newfound friends Sam and Jay they discover the treasures of Emily. They try to solve the mystery of this girl who disappeared years ago.
I would recommend it to 9-13 year old children.
This is a fabulous book that you'll read from start to end in one go. We were very lucky to have Fiona visit us just a few days after the book was published and listening to her journey as an author was very inspiring, just like the book.
