Liz deals with some unfriendly competition at the beach and tries to rescue a baby octopus in the eleventh book of The Critter Club series.

Liz and her family are at the beach! Liz loves building sand sculptures, so when she sees a flyer for a sand castle competition, of course she enters. She thinks shes found a new friend when she meets her neighbor Tommy, who is also competing, but Tommys not so nice. He teases Liz about the castle shes building and he laughs when one of the pieces caves in. Then Lizs castle gets ruined overnight! Its the day of the contest judging, and Liz no longer has anything to enter. Did Tommy destroy Lizs sand castle? Plus, Liz finds a baby octopus that needs help! Will she be able to get the octopus back in the ocean and swimming again?

With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Critter Club chapter books are perfect for beginning readers!