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Olive's Ocean
Écrit par Kevin Henkes
Raconté par Blair Brown
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- HarperAudio
- Sortie:
- Jan 18, 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780060834944
- Format:
- Livre audio
Description
"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.
A HarperAudio production.
Informations sur le livre
Olive's Ocean
Écrit par Kevin Henkes
Raconté par Blair Brown
Description
"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.
A HarperAudio production.
- Éditeur:
- HarperAudio
- Sortie:
- Jan 18, 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780060834944
- Format:
- Livre audio
À propos de l'auteur
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Olive's Ocean is the story of Martha, a 12-year old girl who learns that Olive, a classmate, has died in a car accident. Although she has never been close to this girl, she is given a page from Olive's journal that describes Martha as the nicest girl in the class. Over the summer Martha and her family take their annual vacation to Cape Cod, where Martha contemplates Olive's death and the mortality of her aging grandmother, as well as has her first summer romance.
The writing in this book is good - great descriptions, good realistic dialog. I just kept on expecting the plot to reach an "ah ha" type of climax, but instead it seemed to fall flat. The book was a short enjoyable listen, but not that memorable. One thing interesting about this book is that it was banned for language and sexual content. I discovered after I read it. If there was foul language in this book, it did not make an impression on me. And there was NO sexual content other than Martha's brother making an offhand remark about her parents' morning kisses as examples of After Sex Behavior. Seems a bit harsh to ban a book for that!
Note that the romance is actually just a smallish part of the story, but I'm sure other reviews, about the rest of the book, are more worth reading than anything I can say. To me, this is just another lovely MG story by one of my very favorite authors.
From the back cover - Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends, but they weren’t. Weeks after a tragic accident, all that is left are eerie connections between the two girls, former classmates who both kept the same secret without knowing it. Now, even while on vacation at the ocean, Martha can’t stop thinking about Olive. Things only get more complicated when Martha begins to like Jimmy Manning, a neighbor boy she used to despise. What is going on? Can life for Martha be the same ever again?
My reactions
The intended audience for this novel is the middle-school crowd, and I think 9- to 12-year-olds would respond really well to it. Henkes did a good job of showing tweens on the cusp of growing up – conflicted between loving and wanting to be with family, and wanting to explore and go out on their own. Martha does a lot of thinking and worrying over what Olive is missing, whether her dreams are really her own, whether her grandmother will die soon, whether Jimmy really likes her, whether her father and mother are happy, etc. I like that she feels comfortable confiding (somewhat) in the adults around her and listening to their advice. I particularly liked the way her relationship with her grandmother is portrayed.
However, on the whole, this novel just didn’t do much for me. It was a perfectly good book, but not great. I do think that’s my failing, not the author’s. I’m just too much past the intended audience to appreciate it.
Blair Brown does a fine job performing the audio version. I thought she really brought the characters to life.