Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.

In simple rhyming text tells a story of a family's day at their beach house by the sea.

Gilbert the opossum imagines himself as Surfer Dude on a fun-filled day at the beach.

The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.

Cordelia spends a day at the beach with her dinosaur friends.

Spending the summer at her aunt's beach house, teenaged Sirena struggles with her parents' divorce and falls in love with a mysterious lifeguard.

Eva is very excited about a beach vacation with her family and best friend Lucy, but her secret fear of swimming where there might be hungry sharks could keep her from finding the legendary mermowls.

Seagate Island's centennial summer should be a huge celebration of beach traditions, but it is the rainiest summer on record and Remy, Micayla, Bennett, and the C Twins find that tempers are short, dogs are bored, and summer magic is hard to find.

"At the beach, a boy digs a tunnel where he finds a crab, starfish, and best of all, a dog"--

Although their long-term friendship is strained by new relationships and connections, rising high school seniors Jade, Meg, and Miles pull together when a real estate developer plans to destroy their coastal Maryland resort town's historic boardwalk.