Beneath the Surface is an adventure story that explores real threats to marine life and solutions. Follow young Xing Xing, just before she turns twelve, as her life quickly changes once she discovers a world of surprises under the sea that extend beyond her wildest dreams. While it is a vastly different way of life from what she's familiar with, it is also a world that Xing Xing is deeply connected to, just as deeply as she is connected to her life on land. From her immediate welcome into the mysterious inner depths of Earth until the day she must finally return to its surface, Xing Xing's adventure reveals the inseparable connection and relationship between land and sea that had been lost for nearly a millennium.