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Title: Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes ISBN: 0-06-053543-1 Publisher: Greenwillow Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.05 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: one of the best
Comment: Olive's Ocean is a great book about a girl named named Martha who has a complicated life. After Olive, a girl in Martha's class, dies in an accident, Martha feels somewhat guilty. In Olive's last journal entry she hoped for three things: she wanted to become a writer, she hoped that one day she could go to an ocean, and she wanted to become friends with Martha. Now Martha is trying to fulfill Olive's dreams for herself, and Olive.
This book has won the Newbery Honor and captures the hearts and minds of girls ten-fifteen who also cherished the book Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech.
Kevin Henkes is a great fiction author who writes books for all ages. His writing is award winning from Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse to Olive's Ocean.
Rating: 4
Summary: Olive's Ocean Is A Bit Shallow
Comment: I just finished "Olive's Ocean" a few days ago. It's a sad book about a girl named Martha who spends her summer with her family at her grandmother's after finding out that a girl in her class died. She never really knew the girl, because she was shy and new in her class. Her rather odd mother brought her a page of Olive's journal because on it her daughter wrote that she hoped to get to know Martha that summer because she seemed like one of the nicest people she'd ever met. Olive haunts Martha as she discovers that her grandmother isn't immortal, boys can bring you joy and heartbreak, and that people you don't even notice may care for you most. This is a journey of discovery as Olive deals with the problems within her family, while battling with her decision to become a writer. The writing stlye is VERY simplistic though. I probably would have enjoyed it more if I was a bit younger. It was a REALLY quick read. I would have liked it if the chapter's were a bit longer too. Check this one out from the library. It's good, but not good enough to buy...
Rating: 5
Summary: portrait of the artist as a young girl
Comment: Olive Barstow was the kind of quiet kid who blended into the woodwork. When she died unexpectedly, her mother brought over a diary page to Martha, the protagonist. Stunned by Olive's writing that she wished they could have been friends, and guilty over not knowing of this during her life, Martha decides to try writing a novel as her family spends a summer at the beach. Her relationships with the boys next door, her grandmother whose house they are staying at, and her family are unexpectedly described in more thoughtful detail than the average young adult book. Not since the Anastasia Krupnik books, have I read such a three-dimensional portrait of a senior citizen.
Martha, on the cusp of puberty, finds her relationship to the two boys next door has changed. Every exchange between them feels genuine and what ultimately happens is what would happen in real life, not a glossy teen movie. In the end, she makes little progress on her novel, but discovers much about herself, helped by both adults and peers.
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: An American Plague : The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy ISBN: 0395776082 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 23 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Man Who Walked Between The Towers by Mordicai Gerstein ISBN: 0761317910 Publisher: Millbrook Press Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Robin Page, Steve Jenkins ISBN: 0618256288 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Ella Sarah Gets Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine ISBN: 0152164138 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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