Author: Kevin Henkes
Publisher: Harper Trophy
Year of Publication: 2001
Reader's Rating: 2 - It was okay.
Excerpt: "Olive Barstow was dead. She'd been hit by a car on Monroe Street while riding her bicycle weeks ago. That was about all Martha knew."
In a Nutshell: Martha Boyle, twelve years old, receives a small envelope one morning from a lady who claimed to be Olive Barstow's mother. Inside she finds a page from Olive's journal and is shocked to find her name on it. She and Olive had never been friends and had never even spoken with each other, but they went to the same school and were in the same class. Now she can't stop thinking about her. They had such eerie similarities with each other. She hopes to forget about her when she goes on a trip to see her grandmother, but even there she was reminded of Olive. She didn't know that this trip would change her.
The Good Stuff: It was written well.
The Not-So-Good Stuff: It's a little weird how this book was in the children's section. It had some not-for-children words like "a*shole" and "sh*tty" and a small kissing scene. How inappropriate! The story was a little (a little!) shallow to me as well. Also, I didn't like the way Martha and her brother treated their parents and each other.
Reader's Say: I don't mean to be rude here but I didn't really like this book. It was a little weird and a tiny bit shallow. Maybe that's just me, but I don't recommend this book at all.
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