The Book of the Wind

Ever since Grandpa Faris died, Emil has lived in his crooked old house by the sea. New town, no friends, no Berlin. Just the wind howling around the house at night. And sometimes it whispers.

In the attic, Emil finds a book that is warm and breathes. It carries him aboard the Nauras, to Sinbad the Sailor himself. Together with Leyla from next door, Emil sneaks into the cemetery at night. A shadow made of smoke is waiting there, and it knows his name.

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.

Three winds are still missing. Every morning Leyla crosses off another day on the chalk calendar in the treehouse, one for each day until the end of summer. Then the Seventh Sea will close.

A Roc dives out of the sky, the Doubt Wind whispers to Emil that he’s getting everything wrong, and of all times, Emil and Leyla are barely speaking. Who is the Forgotten Pirate really? The grand finale of the trilogy.