Strong Like the Sea

By: Wendy S. Swore

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Even though twelve-year-old Alexis was born in Hawaii, she won’t surf or swim with her friends - not since the ocean and its hidden creatures swept her out to sea. Instead, she grabs her best detective hat and decodes her mom’s latest challenge.

Alex’s mom works in counterintelligence and leaves codes, ciphers, and puzzles behind for Alex to solve, always with a “treasure” at the end. It’s a brilliant game between them, and Alex loves figuring out her mom’s puzzles - especially the tricky ones - but when an emergency at sea puts her mom in possible danger, solving the next one suddenly feels far more urgent.

Friends help as Alex races to decipher each clue before time runs out, but when the trail leads to grumpy old Uncle, his enormous dog Sarge, and a sea turtle unlike any other, the challenge changes into something bigger than any before. With storms on the horizon and lives on the line, Alex must face her fears to solve Mom’s challenge and save those she loves. With her ohana to help, she must be strong like the sea.

©2021 Wendy Swore (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

Fun read with young girls

I listened to this with my 9
Year old daughter and she would ask for it every time we got in the car.

Strong like the sea is the best!

Strong like the sea is funny, cute, and it teaches a lesson to be brave and face your fears. I also like that even though Alex is scared to go in the ocean, and wants to win the history prize, she jumps into the ocean and saves her uncle. Also, I think it is cute that Alex has a sea turtle friend.

Heartwarming

Great story about family and friends coming together. I want to read it with my class because it also shows that in every family we all have out different ways of coming together to support one another.

What an adventure!

This is another great book from Wendy. This book is filled with adventure and the Hawaiian culture.

The main character has to learn to balance life and worry while trying to get through a treasure hunt that her mom set up for her. Along the way she finds an unexpected friend and learns to work through a major fear.

Great read for all ages!

What a great story!

This book captured me from the start.
The characters are well created, the nature and people are described beutifully, and the main message of this story is heartworming.