Olive's Ocean
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| Author | Kevin Henkes |
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| Illustrator | Kevin Henkes |
| Cover artist | Kevin Henkes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fiction |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Released | 2003 |
| Media type | Hardback |
| Pages | 217 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-06-053544-X |
Olive's Ocean is a 2003 book by Kevin Henkes that won the 2004 Newbery Honor.
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[edit] Plot
The book is centered around 12-year-old Martha Boyle. Martha had just heard about the death of one of her classmates, Olive Barstow, right before she was to see her grandmother in Massachusetts. There, she meets Jimmy Manning, one of her brother Vince's best friends, and she becomes best friends with him, until she finds out that he is just using her for one of his videos. Toward the end of their stay, it is found out that Jimmy's brother, Tate, is the one who really liked her. With growing friendship with Olive, she writes a letter to her mother on her flight home. The book ends when she finds out that Mrs. Barstow just moved.
[edit] Olive's Ocean
The name of the book is derived from the pail of ocean water that Martha called Olive's ocean. The water was obtained by Martha on her Massachusetts vacation when she visited the beach. The idea came from one of her grandmother's stories in which a person lives at an ocean and has to leave but doesn't want to so they brought a pail of ocean water home. Martha, who is also a writer, takes the idea into one of her stories about a particular Olive.
[edit] Headline text
Olive's Ocean
[edit] Kevin Henkes' Idea
The stories idea was taken from Kevin Henkes' question, "What was it like for authors growing up?".
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