Liz and the Sand Castle Contest To the Beach! Liz Jenkins peered through the glass side of the fish tank. "I really wish I were a fish right now!" she said. She and her friends, Ellie, Amy, and Marion, were at The Critter Club. They were standing around an aquarium filled with colorful fish. The girls were pet sitting the fish for a couple of weeks. "It would feel great to go for a swim," Ellie agreed. "Do you think fish ever get hot?" Santa Vista was in the middle of a summer heat wave. Liz would bet it was about ninety-five degrees in Ms. Sullivan's barn. The barn was the headquarters of The Critter Club, the animal rescue shelter the girls had started. "I forgot how hot it can get here," Marion said. She had just returned from horseback riding camp. "Up in the mountains at camp, it was so cool!" Excerpted from Liz and the Sand Castle Contest by Callie Barkley All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.