Look Both Ways meets Seedfolks 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.

Heres whats so cool aboutthebeach.Kids are everywhere!Kids you know, kids you want to know.Wandering from one blanket to another, from one family to another.Somebodys mom reads a fat summer novel.Somebodys dad snores withan iPad on his chest. Babies cry. Girls laugh.Frisbee players whoop!Kites intheperfect blue sky.

Some kids bodysurf.Some dont even likethewater.They build sand cities fortheir friendsand sand jails for the grown-ups, and whenthetide comes in everything gets washed away.

Therestheother world, where all kids hear is tomorrow, next week, next year. Andthentheresthebeach,where everything is right now!

Why cant everydaybe adayatthebeach?

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.