![]() ![]() Every summer, Martha travels from Wisconsin to visit her grandmother, Godbee, at her seaside cottage in Florida off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Martha Boyle is a 12-year-old girl who loves the ocean and wants to be a writer. Narrated in the third-person perspective, the story begins in Wisconsin. Olive’s Ocean was named winner of the 2004 Newbery Honor. Olive’s Ocean has been called a “profoundly touching coming-of-age novel” by Family Fun Magazine, “Lyrically written” by the Seattle Times, and that “Henkes explores key issues of adolescence” by Publishers Weekly. As Olive realizes she and Olive could have been best friends, her life begins to change in unexpected ways. Along the way, Martha discovers that she and Olive have many things in common such as their love of the ocean and their desire to become writers. As Martha begins to learn more about Olive, she begins to feel remorse for mistreating her in school. ![]() Olive looked up to Martha even though they were not very close friends. One year before she leaves, Martha receives a diary entry from the mother of Olive Barstow a classmate of Martha’s who recently died in a hit-and-run car accident. The story follows Martha Boyle, a 12-year-old girl who leaves her home in Wisconsin every summer to visit her grandmother, Godbee, at her house in Florida. Olive’s Ocean is the 2001 children’s novel written by American author and illustrator Kevin Henkes. ![]()
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