sentences:  The biggest town near Shell Beach is Magnolia Springs, where the school, a movie theater and several other businesses are.Her parents' relationship becomes more tempestuous as her father drinks too much and hangs around a gentle crop duster named Jimmy Snow, and they manage to get into impossible situations.When the fall starts, Daisy Fay starts the 6th grade and meets her classmates, which include the very snobby and spoiled Kay Bob Benson, who serves as a nemesis for Daisy Fay throughout the rest of the book.