Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.

"Set against the backdrop of the Malibu surf culture of the 1980s [this book] follows the daughter of a famous singer who, once she finds fame, must grapple with the fact that her father abandoned her and her siblings when they were young"--

It's summer on Nantucket, and as the season begins, three women arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a local boy, home from college. Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women -- two isters and one friend -- make their way to the sisters' tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They're all trying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven failed in-vitro attempts, discovered her husband's...

Thirteen-year-old Hank must overcome his inconvenient invisibility to save Camp Outlier from a saboteur--and win the camp-wide challenge.

"Follows a group of teens during a seaside summer and the efforts of a guilt-driven girl to piece together the events that led to a drowning"--

In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.

For Henry and his big dog Mudge, summer means going on a picnic in the park, taking a bath under the garden hose, and going to the top of the big green hill.

The fourth and final novel in the wildly popular #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, from the author of The Whole Thing Together and The Here and Now.
With unraveled embroidery and fraying hems, the Traveling Pants are back for one last, glorious summer. It’s a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Bridget, Tibby, and Carmen,

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Five-year-old Kylie Taylor sees things others don't. When she sees and hears the ghost of a young girl while flying with her mother, May, Kylie learns that the plane they are on will crash. Sure enough, the aircraft makes a rocky landing and, in the smoky aftermath, Kylie and May are assisted off the plane by Martin Cartier, a hockey player for the Boston Bruins and the father of the long dead-child Kylie saw. A love affair is born, and soon Martin,...

Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling...