书名：Olive’s Ocean 奥莉芙的海洋
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数680L
作者：Kevin Henkes
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2005
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780060535452
商品尺寸：13 x 1.4 x 19.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：240

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凯文·汉克斯创作的Olive’s Ocean《奥莉芙的海洋》获得过众多奖项，其文字简洁有力，故事节奏利落明快，呈现在读者面前的不仅是一个成长故事，更是一个爱的故事。

媒体评论：

“这是一部发人深思的成长小说，大部分小女孩都能在玛莎身上找到自己的影子。” ——《柯克斯书评》

“书中的人物性格层次丰富，情节引人入胜，让读者欲罢不能。”——《学校图书馆杂志》

“好的文学作品就是有这样的魅力，读者会不自觉地跟随玛莎一起欢笑，一起忧伤，一起成长。”——《书单杂志》

Review
“The ever versatile Kevin Henkes dazzles with this spare yet profoundly touching coming-of-age novel.”  —Family Fun Magazine

“An eloquent journey into adolescence.”  —Florida Times-Union

“Few girls will fail to recognize themselves in Martha.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Martha Boyle is one of the memorable 12–year–old girls of fiction, smart, confused, compassionate.” —KLIATT (starred review)

“With his usual sensitivity and insight, Henkes explores key issues of adolescence.”  —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

如果有可能，我们定会成为朋友……
生命中总有许多奇妙的机缘，在我们无从预期的时刻悄然出现，非常微妙地影响着我们往后的人生。
奥莉芙因为车祸不幸丧生，她的妈妈把写着女儿心愿的那页日记交给了玛莎，奥莉芙的同班同学。日记中的惊人秘密，让这两个女孩的命运产生了奇妙的交集。玛莎在海边度假的日子里，心中一直想着奥莉芙，她的生活轨迹也在慢慢发生着改变。玛莎能否帮奥莉芙实现心愿？
Sometimes life can change in an instant
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?

凯文·汉克斯（Kevin Henkes）是美国著名童书作家暨插画家。汉克斯1960年出生于美国威斯康星州，自幼即展露绘画天分，十九岁开始创作童书。他以真实的生活素材，写下一本又一本引起读者共鸣的好书。其作品的特色，在于创作主题紧扣孩子的内心世界，反映出孩子的心声。他创作了一系列以老鼠为主角的作品，广受读者欢迎，成了家喻户晓的小老鼠明星，也为他赢得多项大奖。

Kevin Henkeshas been praised both as a writer and as an illustrator. He received the Caldecott Medal forKitten’s First Full Moon; Caldecott Honors forWaiting and Owen; two Newbery Honors—one forOlive’s Ocean and one forThe Year of Billy Miller—and Geisel Honors forWaiting andPenny and Her Marble. His other books includeEgg,Old Bear,A Good Day,Chrysanthemum, and the belovedLilly’s Purple Plastic Purse. Kevin Henkes lives with his family in Madison, Wisconsin.

“Are you Martha Boyle?”
Martha nodded.
“You don’t knowme,” Said thewoman at the door. “Olive Barstow was my daughter. I was her mother.”
Martha heard herself gasp. A small, barely audible gasp.
“I don’t know how well you knew Olive,” said the woman. “She wasso shy.”The woman reached into the pocket of the odd smock she was wearing and retrieved a folded piece of paper. “But I found this in her journal, and I think she’d want you to have it.”
The rusted screen that separated them gave tile woman a gauzy appearance. Martha cracked open the door to receive the pink rectangle.
“That’s all,the woman Said, already stepping off the stoop. “And thank you.Thank you, Martha Boyle.”
The woman mounted a very old bicycle and pedaled away, her along, sleek braid hanging behind her like a tail.
Breathing deeply to quiet her heart, Martha remained by the door thinking about Olive Barstow, unable for the moment to unfold the paper and read it.
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.
A sad image of Olive rose in Martha’s mind: a quiet, unremarkable girl, a loner with averted eyes, clinging to the lockers when walking down the hallways at school.
The image that flashed next was imagined and worse: Olive flying through the air, after impact, like a bird, then scraping along the pavement and lying in a heap at the curbside, never tomove again.