When ten-year-old Alicia accompanies her brother and his girl friend to the beach, she experiences many things for the first time and gains new insights into herself.
During her last summer at home before leaving for college, Emaline begins a whirlwind romance with Theo, an assistant documentary filmmaker who is in town to make a movie.
Spending the day at the beach with Princess Annie and Prince James, royal puppy Sunny, a well-behaved goldendoodle, comes to the rescue when her mischievous companion, Rex the beagle, goes missing.
Spending the whole summer at the beach, a girl who can communicate with animals and her new friends, a dancing crab and two baby rabbits, join forces to help a dolphin in distress.
While the Aldens are visiting a friend of Grandfather's at the beach, Benny finds a long-lost piece of a map to a legendary pirate treasure, a discovery that brings unwanted attention from fortune hunters.
A friendly writer with a metal detector, the mysterious inhabitants of a tower house, and the discovery of a locket in the sand are ingredients for the Aldens' latest mystery.