Consider the Octopus

Jeremy "JB" Barnes is looking forward to hanging out on the beach all summer before seventh grade. But instead his mother, a scientist, has called for him to join her aboard a research ship where he'll spend his vacation seasick and bored as he strares out at the endless field of plastic objects, microbeads, and other floating debris that make up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Miles and miles away, Sidney Miller is trying to come up with an alternate activity worthy of convincing her overprotective parents that she can skip summer camp. When Jeremy is asked to find the contact information for a list of international scientists and invite them to attend a last-minute emergency global summit, he's excited to be doing something that's actually important. How could he have known that the Sidney Miller he emailed was not thef famous marine biologist, but instead a girl posting blogs from her bedroom - let alone that she would come abord the ship? A comedy of errors, mistaken identity, and synchronicity, this book is also a heartfelt story about friendship and an empowering call to action: to step up and save our oceans and our earth.