Las Animas - Bent County Library District

When her father enters the hospital to have open-heart surgery, ten-year-old Emma is sent to Peconic Bay to live with her tormented aunt and finds the experience painful until she meets a friend who suggests making a miniature village in the sand.

Poppleton the pig goes to the beach, solves a dry skin mystery, and learns that friends are the secret to a long life.

Chloe is enjoying activity camp and all the outdoor fun - what's not to like? But she can't understand why everyone goes on and on about "leaving things the way you found them". After all, what's the big deal about a bit of litter in the middle of the woods? The world is big enough for a bit of rubbish not to matter. But when she's given a mysterious compass with a fifth direction she's transported to a tropical island beach and has to brave the extreme...

D.W. bosses her brother Arthur into carrying her on his shoulders at the beach because she maintains that she hates the water, until she gets a big wet surprise.

"In the taut thriller The shallows, when Nancy is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude"

While exploring on the beach, Sally gets a limpet stuck to her finger and no one can help her get it off.

Zoey the chicken decides to use her imagination to have a beach day and bring her friends along to find buried treasure.

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

Turtle and Snake go to the beach, where they and some other animals participate in a sandcastle-making contest.

Fergus is afraid to go in the water, but he and his baby brother Dink find a surfboard while collecting treasures along the seashore.