A few years ago, building secret fairy houses was quite the rage.  Little girls loved using natural materials to build these hideaways outside.  However, I haven’t seen the interest in this for quite some time.  In Ocean Secrets, fairy houses built on or near the beach are part of the story, but not to the point of having a series named for them.  This book has a big variety of subplots:  friendship between two tweens, a much-loved older home’s questionable future, lobster pots being stolen, mysterious lights in a closed-down hotel on an island, underwater fairy houses, taking care of wildlife, and working together to beat the thieves.  The storyline itself is interesting but the audience it is written for is confusing.   The vocabulary is at about a fourth grade reading level and the fairy house bit is interesting to second graders, many of the subplots are appropriate for second-graders but the thieves have guns and are not so appropriate.  It’s just kind of a conundrum as to who this story is meant for.