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By the Sea: Mystery, Romance and Adventure
Abbot, Hailey. Summer Girls
Cousins Jessica, lara and Greer, aged 15-16, approach their family summer at a Maine beach cottage with very different attitudes, but all look forward to meeting new boys and having some fun.
Banghart, Tracy E. What the Sea Wants
In a fog-shrouded corner of coastal Maine, a girl raised on maritime folklore is drawn to the sea by a strange passion. When a swim turns deadly on the last day of summer, she learns the awful scope of the sea's power.
Bingham, Kelly. Shark Girl
After a shark attack causes the amputation of her right arm, 15-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes in her daily life and her plans for the future.
Blundell, Judy. What I Saw and How I Lied
In 1947, with her stepfather back from World War II and life returning to normal, Evie and her family head for a Florida resort. Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on her stepfather, finds herself caught in a web of lies changing her life and her family forever.
De La Cruz, Melissa. The Au Pairs
Three teenage girls from different backgrounds work for a summer in the Hamptons as au pairs for a wealthy family. In spite of many ups and downs, all three end up changing for the better.
Dessen, Sarah. Keeping the Moon
15-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
Dogar, Sharon. Waves
Hal and his family always go away for the summer, but this time it's different; Charley, his sister, is in a coma. Why can he hear her, and what happened on the beach?
Dunmore, Helen. The Deep
Sapphire lives in two worlds. On land she walks the Cornwall coast, but under the sea she swims like a seal with her Mer friend Faro. A monster called the Kraken is stirring in the ocean depths. With a great whale as her guide, Sapphire journeys to a place so far from the sun no light can find it to confront the evil.
Han, Jenny. The Summer I Turned Pretty
Belly spends the summer she turns 16 at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
Henkes, Kevin. Olive’s Ocean
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, 12-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.
Herlong, Madaline. The Great Wide Sea
After their mother's death, 3 boys leave on a year-long sailing trip with their grieving dad. At the end of the year, dad decides he's not ready to go home yet, and turns the boat towards Bermuda - 900 miles of open ocean away. One morning the boys wake up, their father is no longer on the boat, and they have no idea where they are.
Howells, Amanda. The Summer of Skinny Dipping
While spending the summer in the Hamptons, 16-year-old Mia is disappointed that her cousin Corinne has grown so distant, but when she meets the irresistible and adventurous boy next door, everything changes for the better.
Lewis, Richard. The Killing Sea
In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue their arduous climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother.
Lopez, Jack. In the Break
Surfing is Juan Barrela's life, but when his best friend Jamie faces a violent home situation, Juan steals his mother's car and drives with Jamie and his sister Amber to Mexico to help Jaime hide. Three teens leave, but only two return.
MacCoullough, Carolyn. Drawing the Ocean
A gifted artist, Sadie is determined to fit in at her new school, but her deceased twin brother Ollie keeps appearing to her.
Moodie, Craig. Seaborn
Craving "the Big Freedom," 16-year-old Luke resents being cooped up with his father on a small sailboat after his mother walked out on them. Then a sudden storm sweeps his father overboard, leaving Luke to figure out how to survive on a damaged boat in the Gulf Stream while dealing with his feelings of guilt.
Neri, Greg. Surf Mules
When a tragic accident and sudden financial woes cause recent high school graduate Logan to question plans for his future, he agrees to make a road trip with his best friend and surfing buddy, Z-boy, transporting marijuana from southern California to Orlando, Florida.
Ockler, Sarah. Twenty Boy Summer
While on vacation in California, 16-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.
O’Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island, a young girl survives through her enormous courage and self-reliance, and finds happiness in her solitary life.
Perez, Marlene. Dead is So Last Year
In the beach town of Nightshade, California, home to both human and supernatural beings, the Giordano sisters find summer employment and uncover mysteries involving doppelgangers and oversized football players.
Perez-Diaz, Enrique. My Ocean
12-year-old Enrique found comfort in the ocean after his grandparents fled Cuba, leaving Enrique and his mother behind. The ocean is the place he goes in good times and bad as he tries to make sense of what the future holds for him, his family, and many other Cubans.
Philbrick, Rodman. The Young Man and the Sea
After his mother's death, 12-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a huge bluefin tuna.
Polak, Monique. No More Pranks
Pete likes to play pranks. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it gets a laugh. After he impersonates his vice-principal on a radio call-in show, he is suspended from school and his parents send him to work with his uncle, a whale-watching guide in a tourist town. When a whale is injured by a reckless guide, Pete struggles to save the animal and has to pull the most important prank of his life to bring the guide to justice.
Pratchett, Terry. Nation
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
Russon, Penni. Undine
16-year-old Undine, hearing her presumably deceased father calling to her and feeling a strange force growing inside her, travels to the sea to discover the depths of her magical powers.
Salisbury, Graham. Night of the Howling Dogs
In 1975, 11 Boy Scouts, their leaders, and other people camping at Halape, Hawaii find their survival skills put to the test when a massive earthquake strikes, followed by a tsunami.
Scott, Elizabeth. Stealing Heaven
Dani and her mother move from town to town, robbing wealthy homes and leaving quickly. In the beach town of Heaven, however, Dani meets people she likes, even a guy she’s interested in. But a new friend lives in the house Dani’s mother plans to rob and the guy she likes is a cop. Dani must decide whether to stay with the life she's always known—or go for the one she's always wanted.
Compiled by Jeri Cohen, June 2010
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