Surfboard Summer — Jane L. Sears

"Will things ever be right again?" Cindy Allison asked herself the question hundred times in the months that followed her brother's death. And the answer was always the same, reflected in the remote stillness of mother's face, the empty chair at every meal. A house of shadows it was, and it seemed to Cindy that the good days were gone forever.

Then, one morning, she wandered down to the beach, and there in a bright and salty world she found the friends, the fun, the thrills she longed for.

There was lovely Heather, whose life was shrouded in mystery and whose determination in the face of great handicap was almost beyond belief. There was Bix, handsome, skilled, arrogant, sought-after, and all the others who belong to the surfing crowd. In just one day Cindy knew she wanted more than anything else. To be a wahine, to ride the waves with the daring that would make required by all â€" this was the answer.

It was the beginning of the summer Cindy would never forget. By the end of it, she had discovered solutions to some painful problems. New values waiting for her, and for her family, beyond the most dangerous wave of all.