Title: 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
Time periods: 2001