Sand Dollar Summer

Twelve-year-old Lise watches her safe world fall apart when her strong, self-reliant mom is injured in a car accident. To recuperate, Mom takes Lise and her bright little brother to live in a rattletrap house on the beach in Maine for the summer. Although her mother grew up there, this is Lise's first experience with the ocean. She's terrified by what may be lurking in the cold depths and confused by the ways that Maine is changing her mother.

As secrets from the past start spilling out, even the solid earth may not keep Lise safe anymore. Lise will have to learn to go with the flow -- or risk falling apart -- in this tender, funny, and wise novel...the story of one family's unforgettable summer.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 06/03/2008
ISBN: 9781416958345
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.66h x 5.28w x 0.61d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 106781 / Sand Dollar Summer
Reading Level: 4.6 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 6