Saturday, October 11, 2008

September #7 - OLIVE'S OCEAN


Title: Olive's Ocean

Author: Kevin Henkes

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Copyright: 2003

ISBN: 0-096-053543-1

Series or stand-alone: Stand-alone

Setting: Cape Cod

1st Sentence:

A Beginning
"Are you Martha Boyle?"


Comments:

Martha's classmate, Olive, was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident and her mother visits Martha to give her a section from Olive's journal. Martha heads out to spend the summer with her family at her grandmother's home on Cape Cod and she will gain perspective on the death of her classmate, her relationship with her grandmother, her feelings about boys and her plans to be a writer.


I read this book during Banned Books Week 2008 because it was one of the most challenged books during 2007 and I'm still not sure why. I thought it was a touching story about growing up and dealing with issues that go along with that.

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