Audio only
Length4h 6m
About this audiobook
Look Both Ways meets Seedfolks in this masterful novel that follows a diverse cast of young people whose lives intersect in surprising and hilarious ways over the course of a summer day.
From two-time Newbery honoree Gary D. Schmidt and two-time PEN Award winner Ron Koertge comes a moving and often laugh-out-loud funny middle grade novel about family, friendship, and belonging, told by a group of kids spending a day at the beach.
Here’s what’s so cool about the beach. Kids are everywhere! Kids you know, kids you want to know. Wandering from one blanket to another, from one family to another. Somebody’s mom reads a fat summer novel. Somebody’s dad snores with an iPad on his chest. Babies cry. Girls laugh. Frisbee players whoop! Kites in the perfect blue sky.
Some kids bodysurf. Some don’t even like the water. They build sand cities for their friends and sand jails for the grown-ups, and when the tide comes in everything gets washed away.
There’s the other world, where all kids hear is tomorrow, next week, next year. And then there’s the beach, where everything is right now!
Why can’t every day be a day at the beach?
Thoughtful vignettes brilliantly weave together an irresistible tale of tween conflict and connections.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.5 (503)
Includes Goodreads
GenreChildren's Literature
Length4 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byRamon de Ocampo, Victoria Villareal
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 1, 2025
LanguageEnglish
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