Kyle has never flown on a plane before or seen the Pacific Ocean and is excited to experience both. The prize is an all-expenses paid family trip to the Oregon coast. When his father wins the Salesman of the Year award from the real estate firm he works for, Kyle is thrilled. Kyle lives in Kansas with his mother and father and eight-year-old sister, BeeBee. Kyle prides himself for not telling anyone about the bullying, but lately, he’s felt like a coward. Since he is skinny and much smaller than Daren, Kyle avoids confrontation at all costs. Big and strong, Daren loves to pick a fight and has bullied Kyle since kindergarten. Kyle describes his goals for the summer: learn to pop a wheelie on his bike, improve his batting average, get his parents to increase his allowance, and make Daren Hazelton leave him alone.
The perfect vacation has become a nightmare! Somehow Kyle and BeeBee have to outwit nature's fury and save themselves from tsunami terror.Kyle is finishing sixth grade and begins his story thinking about his last assignment––his teacher has asked his class to make a list of their summer goals. The giant wave charges straight up the hillside and through the woods where the children are running for their lives. Kyle and BeeBee flee uphill as a tsunami crashes over the beach, the hotel, and the town. Giant tsunami waves - three or four stories high can ride in from the sea and engulf anyone who doesn't escape fast enough. Then the earthquake comes - starting a fire in their hotel! As Kyle and BeeBee fight their way out through smoke and flame, Kyle remembers the sign at the beach that said after an earthquake everyone should go uphill and inland, as far from the ocean as possible. One evening Kyle is left in charge of his younger sister, BeeBee, while his parents attend an adults-only Salesman of the Year dinner on an elegant yacht. He'd never flown before, and he'd never seen the Pacific Ocean. Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great.
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