The Amulet of the Storm

On May twelfth, Grandpa Faris would have turned seventy-one. Every year there was plum cake on his birthday. This year Emil’s mom asks, “What cake?” The forgetting has begun.

Emil and Leyla sail with Sinbad again. They face the Old Man of the Sea and a giant with only one eye. Back home, a trail leads to silent Mr. Wendt, and out over the sea a storm is building.