TY  - BOOK
AU  - Henkes,Kevin
TI  - Olive's ocean
SN  - 0060535431
AV  - PZ7.H389 Ol 2003
U1  - [Fic] 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Greenwillow Books
KW  - Newbery Honor book
KW  - 2004
KW  - Grandmothers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Family life
KW  - Self-perception
KW  - Contemporary realistic fiction
KW  - local
N2  - 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
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