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Olive's Ocean

(Newbery Honor Book)

By Kevin Henkes

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| Hardcover | 9780060535438

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"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 inContinue

"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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  • Book Review: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes Share

    I have always had a soft spot in my heart for good children's novels. There is a simple elegance to them that cannot be matched by anything geared toward adults. Olive's Ocean, a recent Newbery Honor winner, is the most recent I have enjoyed. The boo ... (read full critics)

    blogcritics published on Wed, 4 Feb 2004

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 224 Pages
  • Edition: 1st ed
  • ISBN-10: 0060535431
  • ISBN-13: 9780060535438
  • Publisher: Greenwillow
  • Pub date: Aug 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Audio CD and Others
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