A little boy playing at the seashore makes a toy sailboat that is swept out to sea, and, after braving storms, hungry fish, and bigger boats, is finally found by a little girl on the opposite shore.
Lists one hundred facts about the seashore, providing information on the plants, animals, and fish that live on the shore, tides, waves, rock pools, sand dunes, and other related topics.
A color-illustrated overview of sea shores that describes tides, waves, sea shore habitats, and life on several kinds of shores, as well as the sea shore's food web.
Donnie and Gramma, who is in a wheelchair, take an imagined walk to the seashore and smell the salty breeze, walk barefoot on the warm sand, observe animals, and build a sand castle.
At the end of the summer, 14-year-old Owen refuses to leave the beach house which has been his family's summer home for 10 years and which is scheduled for demolition.