Day at the Beach

<p><strong><em>Look Both Ways</em> meets <em>Seedfolks</em> in this masterful novel from two titans of kid lit that follows a diverse cast of young people whose lives intersect in surprising and hilarious ways over the course of a summer day.</strong></p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>There's the other world where all kids hear is tomorrow next week next year. And then there's the beach where everything is <em>right now</em>!<em> </em></p><p>Why can't every day be a day at the beach?</p><p>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. Thoughtful vignettes brilliantly weave together an irresistible tale of tween conflict and connections.</p>