Miles is a thirteen yr old who has a passion for tidal life and marine biology. I like novels that have a young narrator. His relationship with his parents was written really well; and I loved the parts with Miles and his friend Kenny Phelps. Lots of ocean-life references and marine biology that, by the end, seemed to hit us over the head with the message of "Look at how wonderous ocean life is; isn't life amazing?" It's like the author tried to put in every single amazing thing about ocean life, whereas we could've gotten the point with one-fourth the amount of examples. (Also, I didn't get why that old lady, Florence, was his best friend).