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Author
Series
Bellinger sisters romances volume 1
Language
English
Description
Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar... in Washington. Piper hasn't even been in Westport for five minutes when she...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
5) Whale done
Author
Series
FunJungle volume 8
Language
English
Description
While visiting his girlfriend Summer in Malibu, Teddy stumbles upon two mysteries involving a blown up whale explosion and a string of beach sand thefts, but his investigation is sidetracked by a rumor that his girlfriend is dating a celebrity, leading him to question their relationship.
6) Sunset beach
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Pull up a lounge chair and have a cocktail at Sunset Beach - it comes with a twist. Drue Campbell's life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn't seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother's funeral after a twenty-year absence. Worse, he's remarried - to Drue's eighth grade frenemy, Wendy, now his office manager. And they're offering her a...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the...
Author
Series
My weird school daze volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Second-grade graduate A.J. and his family rent a beach house, but summer vacation is ruined when annoying Andrea shows up and develops a crush on the lifeguard.
10) The swell
Author
Language
English
Description
"Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangerous ties between a group of elite surfers who are determined to find the perfect waves at any cost ... even murder"--
11) Eva at the beach
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Chu books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chu and his family are going to the beach! Chu will get to wade in the water and play in the sand. But what happens if Chu sneezes? And what will happen if he doesn't?
Author
Series
Duck and Goose (Picture books) volume 3
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Duck wants to go on an adventure. Goose doesn't. He doesn't see the point. After all, why would they go anywhere when they're happy right where they are? But then Goose sees the ocean and loves it. Who doesn't? Well, Duck, for one"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Whitaker family Connecticut mansion, Muses by the Sea, has always been a haven for artists, a hotbed of creativity, extravagances, and the occasional scandal. Art patrons for generations, the Whitaker's supported strangers but drained the life out of each other. Now, after being estranged for years, four generations of Whitaker women find themselves once again at The Muses. Leo, the Whitaker matriarch, lives in the rambling mansion crammed with...
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
George, the Man in the Yellow Hat, and Marco head to the beach and dig for clams, swim with dolphins, and bury treasure, but when the water comes in and takes their treasure away, they learn all about tides.
18) Aqualicious
Author
Series
Pinkalicious volume 6
Publisher
Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At the beach, Pinkalicious and her brother help a tiny mermaid, a merminnie, to go back home.
20) Flotsam
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.
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