Olive's Ocean

I read a book called "Olive's Ocean" by Kevin Henkes. I read this book because the author won the Newbery Honor. The books which got Newbery Honor, are very meaningful so I enjoy reading them.

The main character Martha, got a letter from Olive's mother. It made her very surprised because Olive was dead. She had been hit by a car on Monroe Street while she was riding a bicycle. The letter made her feel eerie because the letter was written that Martha was the best student in Olive's class. Martha didn't do something special thing for her nor did she spoke something nice to her.

At a summer vacation, she went to her grandmother's house. Near her (grandmother's) house, there were Manning boys. Martha liked one of the Manning boys called Jimmy. Martha and Jimmy went together and traveled together. But one day, Jimmy ruined her life. He kissed her and he was recording it with his video camera. This didn't made her feel very angry but when Jimmy said he did it for a bet, she became very angry. From then on, Martha became miserable and seldomly went outside.

One day, when she was strolling around with her little sister, she filled a bottle with Pacific ocean for Olive. At the letter, it said her best place was Pacific ocean. She decided to give it to Olive's mother. What she found out next was that there was Jimmy at the opposite side with another girl. To aviod his vision, she went near the sea but unfortunately, she was sweeped by a sudden, strong wave. She almost drowned but fortunately she could live by swimming for her life. From this disaster, she learned that she was worrying too much about video that she acted as if this was a big problem like this big disaster. So, she started not to worry it. Amazingly, before she went back to her house again, one of Manning boys called Tate, stole the video record from Jimmy and gave it to her.

At her home, she decided that she had to do something with the video record and went to Olive's mother's house. But unluckily, a person said that she moved to another city. So, she wrote Olive's name on the top of the step where Olive usually sat, with a brush. She kept on writing it until there was no water left.

I think this is a very meaningful book. I wish I can write a story very well like him. To achieve my goal, I should read a lot and practice to write very descriptive like him.

P.S I will give 10 stars out of 10 stars. I really like to recommend everyone to read it.