Olives Ocean

Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes 217 pages, Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow were classmates, before the tragic accident of Olive's death. Marta and Olive both wanted to be friends, but it was to late. Olive was riding down Knickbocker street, and she wasn't looking and got hit. Martha's father was a writer, but decided to go back to work, and Martha kept her secret of wanting to be a writer, but now that her father quit, she didn't have to keep it a secret. The reason she didn't want to tell her father was, she didn't want him to think she was coping him. Martha's first novel was Olive's Ocean.