Olive's Ocean

Version: Unabridged
Author: Kevin Henkes
Narrator: Blair Brown
Genres: Juvenile and Children's, Fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date: May 2004
Length: 2 hours, 30 minutes
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Overview

"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.

Reviews (1)

Olive's Ocean

Written by Elly from Tooele, UT on October 10th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 4/5

I would have loved this book when I was a girl. It's simple and sweet to listen to.

Author Details

Author Details

Henkes, Kevin

Kevin Henkes was awarded the Caldecott Medal for "Kitten's First Full Moon". He is the creator of several picture books featuring his mouse characters, including the #1 "New York Times" bestsellers "Lilly's Big Day" and "Wemberly Worried", the Caldecott Honor Book "Owen", and the beloved "Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse". A starred review from "The Horn Book" called his picture book "Old Bear" "another winner for very young children," and Bruce Handy, in a "New York Times Book Review" piece about "A Good Day", one of the author's most recent picture books, wrote, "It should be said: Kevin Henkes