{"product_id":"a-day-at-the-beach-isbn-9780063380936","title":"A Day at the Beach","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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. Now available in paperback!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere’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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere’s the other world, where all kids hear is tomorrow, next week, next year. And then there’s the beach, where everything is \u003ci\u003eright now\u003c\/i\u003e!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy can’t every day be a day at the beach?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoughtful vignettes brilliantly weave together an irresistible tale of tween conflict and connections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52125432447205,"sku":"NP9780063380936","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-day-at-the-beach-isbn-9780063380936","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}