beaches

As her friends in the Critter Club animal shelter care for colorful aquarium fish, second-grader Liz and her family spend a long weekend at the beach, where Liz rescues a baby octopus and competes with an unfriendly young neighbor in a sand castle contest.

Lula and her parents must leave their beloved house on the beach, but Bean, the tiny creature she rescued from a seagull, becomes a friend and does not want her to go.

Jamie wants to quietly work on an art project near her friend, the sea, but people keep disturbing her by asking questions.

Heading to the beach for a family vacation, the literal-minded Amelia Bedelia, her mischievous cousin and a new friend build sand castles, swim in the ocean and learn how to sail before stumbling across a band of pirates.

The Martinez family is headed for a weekend at the beach, along with their friends, but Sofia has packed so many games that she does not have room for clothes. Written in Spanish.

"Four bottles wash up on the beach--and each one has a strange note inside! Will Barbie and her sisters be able to follow the clues and solve the mystery of the secret messages?"--Back cover.

"It's a perfect weather for a day at the beach! Barbie's friend Raquelle arrives dressed to impress with a diamond necklace, gold bracelet, and a ruby ring. But when she takes her jewels off to go swimming, Raquelle returns to find them missing! Can Barbie and her sisters discover the true identity of the beach bandit?"--Back cover.

Chad, hoping to work out his frustrations and his anger by taking a summer job as a dunk tank Bozo on the boardwalk at the New Jersey shore, comes to a better understanding of himself and the uses of humor as he undergoes training in the fine art of insults.

The Garcia family is spending a summer weekend at the beach, having a wonderful time playing in the water, and discovering the sand dollars and other small creatures that live along the shore.

Spending the summer marooned with her mother and stepfather in a snooty Massachusetts shore town bores Cassandra until she meets a dreamy stranger who claims the year is 1925, sweeping Cassandra into a mystery a hundred years in the making.