Half way through Banned Books Week! Have you read any banned or challenged books
yet to show how crazy rebellious you are?
If not, here’s another option for you to show
your support.
Olive’s Ocean, published in
2003 by Kevin Henkes, tells the story of Martha, a young girl who discovers
that a classmate who recently died had secretly wanted to be her friend. Martha had hardly noticed Olive while she was
alive, but her posthumous confession leads Martha on a summer of soul searching
and leaving behind childhood innocence.
During this summer of change, Martha must deal with changing
relationships within her family and her own feelings for a boy she meets at the
beach, with whom she shares her first kiss.
It is a tale of growing up and seeing the world through older eyes.
Reason for challenge: offensive language and being sexually
explicit.
-Amanda