cape cod (mass.)

"Junior Lifeguards basic training isn't for wimps! Thirteen-year-old aspiring actress Selena Diaz learns this the hard way during her first week on the squad. Along with best pals Jenna, Piper, and Ziggy, Selena is just getting her feet wet as a lifeguard trainee and the going is tough."--Back cover.

"Ziggy Bloom has met her match in squad director Bud Slater.In Fireworks!, Ziggy and Bud clash over everything from the environment to yoga to vegetarianism. As Ziggy's agenda threatens to ruin a long-standing town tradition, Bud's ire toward her grows. But here they both learn valuable lessons about tolerance and how ideas that might be ideal in theory don't always work well in practice. Meanwhile, Ziggy and Samantha Frankel compete for the affections of silent surfer Jack Lee, and Ziggy grows as a lifeguard, figuring out ways to incorporate and share her love of the invironment with beachgoers of all ages."-Back cover.

A collection of essays from nature writer Robert Finch, as he pays tribute to the forty miles along the Atlantic coast, known as the Outer Beach.

"Spend a beachy summer vacation 'down the Cape' with Jenna, Piper, Selena, and Ziggy, four girls entering their first season as lifeguards-in-training on Cape Cod's famously fun and gorgeous beaches! In this first of the Junior Lifeguards series, the girls are vying for spots on the summer squad, with ocean legend Bud Slater hand-picking a team of winners to participate. Will they or won't they make the team? And what of the cute boys who are vying for spots, too: handsome but troubled Hayden, cute but unreliable Luke, and silent but gorgeous Jack Lee? And the competition: glamorous international society ingenue Samantha Frankel, a beautiful swimmer and rock-star rich babe, set to steal the hearts of the boys and the kudos of Bud Slater from all the local girls. Dive right into Junior Lifeguards to find out what happens on the beach and off!"--Amazon.com.

On Cape Cod in 1972, eleven-year-old Naomi, known as Chirp for her love of birds, gets help from neighbor Joey as she struggles to cope with her mother's multiple sclerosis and its effect on her father and sister.

In the touristy town of Cape Cod, eleven-year-old Owen faces a dilemma when his best friend Sean is sexually abused by a trusted adult, but warns Owen not tell anyone what is happening.

"This summer, the town of Pruet is turning 300, and a huge celebration is planned. On their first night back east, the girls make a promise not to fight with each other, ensuring that this will be the best summer yet... With the divide between the girls growing deeper, Marigold, Zinnie, and Lily worry it's impossible for them to go a summer without a big fight. The same silver moon may hang in the night sky each year, but the sisters below it are changing in ways they have yet to understand. If they grow apart, more than a promise could be at risk. But if they grow together-the sky's the limit."--Publisher.

Willa Havisham is excited to learn everything there is to know about a long-lost brother she never knew existed, but her mother is not happy about her discovery.

Lester has just moved to Cape Cod and is starting in a new school, and George is missing his best friend who has moved away, but the two develop a friendship and learn about scientific experimentation when they start working on a school science project, testing psychic ability in dogs, based on an experiment developed by Dr. Rupert Sheldrake.

Historian Robert MacIver creates a strange tale about men in the trenches of the First World War, forcing himself to relive his own experiences in the war and the impact they had on his life.