Olive's Ocean: A Newbery Honor Award Winner Hardcover - 2003

From the rear cover

"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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Citations

• ALA Best Books Young Adults, 03/15/2004, Page 1282
• ALA Notable Children's Books, 03/15/2004, Page 1287
• Booklist, 09/01/2003, Page 122
• Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2004, Page 781
• Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2003, Page 17
• Horn Book Magazine, 11/01/2003, Page 745
• Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/2003, Page 94
• Kirkus Review - Children, 07/01/2003, Page 911
• Kliatt, 07/01/2003, Page 13
• Publishers Weekly, 08/18/2003, Page 80
• School Library Journal, 08/01/2003, Page 160
• Voice of Youth Advocates, 12/01/2003, Page 394