Olive's ocean /
Henkes, Kevin.
Olive's ocean / by Kevin Henkes. - 1st ed. - New York : Greenwillow Books, c2003. - 217 p. ; 20 cm.
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer. Publisher description: "Olive Barstow was dead. She'd been hit by a car on Monroe Street while riding her bicycle weeks ago. That was about all Martha knew." Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends. But they weren't -- and now all that is left are eerie connections between two girls who were in the same grade at school and who both kept the same secret without knowing it. Now Martha can't stop thinking about Olive. A family summer on Cape Cod should help banish those thoughts instead, they seep in everywhere. And this year Martha's routine at her beloved grandmother's beachside house is complicated by the Manning boys. Jimmy, Tate, Todd, Luke, and Leo. But especially Jimmy. What if, what if, what if, what if? The world can change in a minute.
0060535431 006053544X (lib. bdg.)
2002029782
Newbery Honor book--2004
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Self-perception--Fiction.
Contemporary realistic fiction.
PZ7.H389 / Ol 2003
[Fic]
Olive's ocean / by Kevin Henkes. - 1st ed. - New York : Greenwillow Books, c2003. - 217 p. ; 20 cm.
On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer. Publisher description: "Olive Barstow was dead. She'd been hit by a car on Monroe Street while riding her bicycle weeks ago. That was about all Martha knew." Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends. But they weren't -- and now all that is left are eerie connections between two girls who were in the same grade at school and who both kept the same secret without knowing it. Now Martha can't stop thinking about Olive. A family summer on Cape Cod should help banish those thoughts instead, they seep in everywhere. And this year Martha's routine at her beloved grandmother's beachside house is complicated by the Manning boys. Jimmy, Tate, Todd, Luke, and Leo. But especially Jimmy. What if, what if, what if, what if? The world can change in a minute.
0060535431 006053544X (lib. bdg.)
2002029782
Newbery Honor book--2004
Grandmothers--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Self-perception--Fiction.
Contemporary realistic fiction.
PZ7.H389 / Ol 2003
[Fic]