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.

The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.

Illustrations and brief rhyming text depict a boy and his mother spending a day at the beach.

At the beach, Pinkalicious and her brother help a tiny mermaid, a merminnie, to go back home.

Vampirina, the little vampire ballet dancer, shows how to have fun and be safe at the beach.

Lulu, who likes to wear a ladybug costume, goes to the beach for the first time and makes sand castles, flies kites, and deals with her fear of the ocean.

A child, a doll, and an adult go for a walk on the beach one late afternoon of a cold winter day, before heading home to dinner and a bedtime story.

Gilbert the opossum imagines himself as Surfer Dude on a fun-filled day at the beach.

"Penguin's tired of the snow and cold--so he decides to go on vacation! But where should he go? And what new friends will he meet along the way?"--

As her friends in the Critter Club animal shelter care for colorful aquarium fish, second-grader Liz and her family spend a long weekend at the beach, where Liz rescues a baby octopus and competes with an unfriendly young neighbor in a sand castle contest.