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Luna Bay #1
Pier Pressure
Luna's been stressing out while preparing for an upcoming surfing competition. She wants to do well, but living up to her mother's reputation as a former U.S. champion surfer isn't so easy. Five best friends go coastal in this fabulously fun surfing series from Roxy Girl! Luna, Rae, Kanani, Cricket and Isoble are in for the summer of their lives working at Tuck and Cate's co-ed sufing camp. But these five girls are more than just co-workers - they're beach girls, best friends and some of Luna Bay's top surfers. Lately Luna's been stressing out while preparing for an uncoming surfing competition.
- GenresYoung Adult
165 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2003
About the author
Francess Lin Lantz
47 books12 followersFrancess Lin Lantz (b. August 27, 1952, Trenton, New Jersey — d. November 22, 2004, Santa Barbara, California) was an American children's librarian turned fiction writer, whose fan base was mostly preteen and teenaged girls.
For more than two decades, Lantz wrote more than 30 books, including several juvenile bestsellers. She won the American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults award for her 1997 romance, Someone to Love. Stepsister from Planet Weird (Random House, 1996) was made into a Disney Channel television movie in 2000.
Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Lantz was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She initially aspired to become a rock musician and composer. She graduated in 1974 from Dickinson College (in Pennsylvania) and from Simmons College (in Boston) in 1975, where she earned a master's degree in library sciences.
She died in Santa Barbara, California in 2004 following a five years long battle with ovarian cancer; she was 52 years old.
For more than two decades, Lantz wrote more than 30 books, including several juvenile bestsellers. She won the American Library Association's Best Book for Young Adults award for her 1997 romance, Someone to Love. Stepsister from Planet Weird (Random House, 1996) was made into a Disney Channel television movie in 2000.
Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Lantz was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She initially aspired to become a rock musician and composer. She graduated in 1974 from Dickinson College (in Pennsylvania) and from Simmons College (in Boston) in 1975, where she earned a master's degree in library sciences.
She died in Santa Barbara, California in 2004 following a five years long battle with ovarian cancer; she was 52 years old.
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May 23, 2011this book was my favorite out of the series because it showed alot of drama and romance! This book also had alot of surfing in it. over all it was an amazing book.
December 31, 2014
Used to love reading no these in the summer.
September 10, 2026
This was a very cute book for teens. I remember getting one of these books at the scholastic bookfair and wanting to collect them all, so I decided to read the series and see if they held up as I remembered as a pre-teen. This was such a good book for teens.
Friendship: The friendship is the center of the book. No matter what else happens, Luna has her friends. And yes, she puts her foot in her mouth and says something stupid, but this book is great at showing young women how to mend their friendships when they do something foolish. Each of the girls: Luna, Rae, Kanani, Cricket, and Isobel are distinct and easy to distinguish from the others. And no one has a perfect home life.
Family Dynamics: As mentioned before, no one has a perfect family life. It's refreshing to read believable family situations. Luna's parents love each other, but she's having a hard time living up to the celebrity of her mother. Kanani was adopted and is curious about her family background in Hawaii, she uses connecting and protecting the earth to reach for that. Rae's parents run a business and argue over it. Cricket has been raised by her mother because her father skipped out on her life and is absent save for birthday cards and she longs for that connection. Honestly, now that I think about it, Isobel was barely touched upon in this book.
Topics: David, the love interest, lost his mother recently and is dealing with grief. There is a brief scene where he is in the waves and . Luna's big hurdles are figuring out whether she wants to be a career surfer, whether she wants to win, or if she just wants to surf for fun.
I really enjoyed the story. There was a moment when Luna had her head in the wrong lane, but she eventually figured it out on her own and opened up to her mother and worked on being their for her friends. There is also a subplot going on with Kanani about pollution that gave Luna more to try and balance in her life. The romance was cute and sweet, but the main focus was on Luna and her own trials. This was a really good book about growth.
Friendship: The friendship is the center of the book. No matter what else happens, Luna has her friends. And yes, she puts her foot in her mouth and says something stupid, but this book is great at showing young women how to mend their friendships when they do something foolish. Each of the girls: Luna, Rae, Kanani, Cricket, and Isobel are distinct and easy to distinguish from the others. And no one has a perfect home life.
Family Dynamics: As mentioned before, no one has a perfect family life. It's refreshing to read believable family situations. Luna's parents love each other, but she's having a hard time living up to the celebrity of her mother. Kanani was adopted and is curious about her family background in Hawaii, she uses connecting and protecting the earth to reach for that. Rae's parents run a business and argue over it. Cricket has been raised by her mother because her father skipped out on her life and is absent save for birthday cards and she longs for that connection. Honestly, now that I think about it, Isobel was barely touched upon in this book.
Topics: David, the love interest, lost his mother recently and is dealing with grief. There is a brief scene where he is in the waves and . Luna's big hurdles are figuring out whether she wants to be a career surfer, whether she wants to win, or if she just wants to surf for fun.
I really enjoyed the story. There was a moment when Luna had her head in the wrong lane, but she eventually figured it out on her own and opened up to her mother and worked on being their for her friends. There is also a subplot going on with Kanani about pollution that gave Luna more to try and balance in her life. The romance was cute and sweet, but the main focus was on Luna and her own trials. This was a really good book about growth.
March 8, 2025
Leaving this here for pure nostalgic reasons. Loved these books growing up!
January 2, 2026
Nostalgia 10/10
June 22, 2014
The first of a series of 7 teen-directed surfer girl books I am working on for a paper about surfer girls, culture, fiction and selling the Roxy Girl brand. There is rich stuff here about friendship, gender politics and physical feminism but I need to get my head around the genre, the target age group and fiction as marketing. It is a promising looking series for an academic outing with lots of stuff about finding yourself and being true to your own goals, the importance of a circle of friends and not doing it all alone and the environmental politics of surfing.
June 9, 2008
this book frames a teens troubles READ THIS BOOK
January 24, 2009
Sound Cheesy but acctually really GOOD!!
August 10, 2012
I loved this series when I was about 14/15!
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June 13, 2008
Its a great summer story!!
August 23, 2008
A really cute series about girl surfers. :)
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