this was cute! such a good summer read for early middle grade readers. 😎🌞🌊

I’m a sucker for books set on the east coast (cape cod... swoon), and this one delivered!

I like how the four girls cover a wide array of backgrounds... there’s a character for every reader to relate to!

my only critiques: this book is pretty one dimensional and surface level — like every character or conversation was exactly what it seemed with nothing lurking underneath. I had to keep reminding myself that I’m wayyyy over the target age range lol. and everyone sounded the same, like the author didn’t even try to make the adult characters not sound like seventh grade girls.

This is a middle grade book, and this is the first book in the Summer Lifeguards series. This book has one book with an autistic character, but that character is not a big character. I do feel this book shows how other kids sees an autistic kid. This book is mostly about a young girl that loves to swim help her town/family get through a hurricane. I think this is a cute book that young girls will enjoy. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher (Sourcebooks Young Readers) or author (Elizabeth Doyle Carey) via NetGalley, so I can give honest review about how I feel about this book. I want to send a big Thank you to them for that.

I enjoyed Summer Lifeguards. However, it did seem to end pretty abruptly for me. Throughout the whole story, you meet several different characters, all girls, that are in their separate preparations for a hurricane that is coming their way. Throughout the story, their individual lives interconnect, and they all find themselves inspired by the summer lifeguards that are helping prepare for the upcoming hurricane. Great attention to detail was prepped in preparing the separate characters and how each of them would be affected by the storm. It took most of the book to establish those ideas. I just wanted the same attention for the aftermath and long-term effect for the end of the story.

I really liked the book about 4 kids having to overcome their struggles. I loved the different viewpoints of everyone and the individual challenges they all faced. It's very interesting and I liked the use of different povs. It's a great book for kids around 7-10.

This is a cute book for middle grade readers. Its definitely something I would have really enjoyed at that age and found cute even now. This was a very light and easy read.
One thing I did like that one of the characters had autism spectrum disorder. They weren't a main character or anything but the book does give the reader a chance to see how some people view autism.
I think overall this is a cute book for middle grade readers. I think this will be really popular come summer and I am curious to see how the rest of the series goes.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an early review copy.