Olive's Ocean

Description:

On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.

subjects: Fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  Grandmothers,  Self-perception,  Family life,  Family,  Families,  Accelerated Reader,  Children's literature,  Children's fiction,  Grandparents, fiction,  Self-perception, fiction,  Family life, fiction,  Reading Level-Grade 7,  Reading Level-Grade 6,  Reading Level-Grade 8,  Death,  Sea stories,  Océano,  Muerte,  Ficción juvenil,  Newbery Honor

Times: 2001