Olive's Ocean

De: Kevin Henkes

Narrado por: Blair Brown

A brilliant, touching coming-of-age story, and a Newbery Honor Book.

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?

Multiple award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Kevin Henkes brings his insightful, gentle, real-world insight to middle grade novels, including:

• Billy Miller Makes a Wish
• Bird Lake Moon
• The Birthday Room
• Junonia
• Olive's Ocean
• Protecting Marie
• Sun & Spoon
• Sweeping Up the Heart
• Two Under Par
• Words of Stone
• The Year of Billy Miller
• The Zebra Wall

©2004 Kevin Henkes; (P)2004 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

good

loved it but was very long and it was an amazing story and of course amazing narrator

Violin interruptions

While I loved the story and the performance of Olive's Ocean, I found the intermittent violin quite distracting and unpleasant. It was a bit too loud and really jolted you out of the story. Perhaps this was an intentional artistic hypocrisy however I found that it took away from the story rather than added to it.

Olive's Ocean

This is a short but sweet teen story. Author does a good job with understanding adolescent mindset. A quick listen in audible.

so good

my daughter read the book so i did this so sweet such good story made me cry smile and laugh

Awesome!!

I love how the woman reads. She just does. This app managed my time do well when reading a book.
Five stars