Helen Plum Library

"Gretchen turns to her vivid imagination when she is left behind while her siblings swim in the ocean"--

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

A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away

"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."--

A young girl and her mother walk along the beach and marvel at the treasures cast up by the sea and the wonders of the world around them

A day at the beach is the occasion for this rhyming look at the relationships between things

A girl enjoys using all of her five senses to explore the ocean, but when a jellyfish appears she discovers that the sea is not always nice

Illustrations and simple text follow a dog as it chases a ball at the beach

When Katie Woo and her friends go to the beach, Katie is so rude and bossy that her friends do not want to play with her