num_pages: 224
description: When her mother, while recovering from a serious car accident, takes her and her mute brother to Maine, where she encounters the beach for the very first time, twelve-year-old Lise learns past secrets about her mother that threaten her safe world.
language: English
title: Sand Dollar Summer
titlecomplete: Sand Dollar Summer
genres: Family, Fiction, Contemporary, Coming Of Age, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Chapter Books, Middle Grade, Relationships
ratings_count: 1371
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Truman Readers Award
publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books