Once they arrive, Kim leaves and Ronnie runs off to the carnival down at the beach, where she watches a volleyball game in the crowd.

As she turns to leave, one of the players, the privileged Will Blakelee, knocks into her while trying to reach the ball, spilling her soda all through the front of her shirt.

Later, when Ronnie finds a nest of Loggerhead turtle eggs in danger of raccoons behind her house, she decides to camp out next to it to save it.

[5] According to USA Today's chart, which combines sales of all formats of a book, The Last Song outsold all other titles in its first week.

[6] The book dropped to number 2 on all lists the following week, due to the release of Dan Brown's highly anticipated The Lost Symbol, the sequel to The Da Vinci Code.

The film stars Miley Cyrus as Ronnie, along with Greg Kinnear as Steve, Liam Hemsworth as Will Blakelee, Kelly Preston as Kim, and Bobby Coleman as Jonah.