A friendly town that's almost always by the ocean!/kir fox

Description Welcome to Topsea, the strangest place youll ever visit.

In this town, the coves are bottomless and the pier has no end in sight.

Theres a high tide and a low tide.

and a vanishing tide.

Dogs are a myth, but mermaids are totally real.

And seaweed is the main ingredient in every meal-watch out, it might just start chewing you back New kid Davy definitely thinks Topsea is strange.

His mom keeps saying theyll get used to life in their new town-its just the way things are on the coast But after his first day at Topsea School, Davy finds himself wondering: Why is his locker all the way at the bottom of the school swimming pool? Why cant anyone remember his name? (Its Davy ) And why does everyone act like all of this is normal? Through newspaper articles, stories, surveys, notifications, and more, follow Davy and the rest of Ms.

Grimalkins fifth grade class through the weird world of Topsea.

(Whatever you do, dont make eye contact with the rubber ducks.

) About the author Kir Fox (Kirsten Hubbard) and M.

Shelley Coats (Michelle Schusterman) are great friends, longtime critique partners, and ardent consumers of the strange and unusual.

Kirsten is the author of the middle-grade novels Watch the Sky and Race the Night (Disney-Hyperion), and the young adult novels Like Mandarin and Wanderlove (Delacorte Press/Random House Childrens Books).

She lives in Los Angeles.

Michelle is the author of the middle grade series I Heart Band and The Kat Sinclair Files (Grosset/Penguin), and the middle-grade novel Olive and the Backstage Ghost (Random House Childrens Books).

She lives in New York City.