Bird Lake Moon
by Kevin Henkes | 
After the Rain
by Norma Fox Mazer | 
With You and Without You
by Ann M. Martin | 
Fish in a Tree
by Lynda Mullaly Hunt | 
The Man Who Loved Clowns
by June Rae Wood | 
Max Einstein
by James Patterson | 
Pig-Heart Boy
by Malorie Blackman |
The Year the Swallows Came Early
by Kathryn Fitzmaurice | 
Mudville
by Kurtis Scaletta |
The Man in the Ceiling
by Jules Feiffer | 
Tallahassee Higgins
by Mary Downing Hahn | 
Chicken Boy
by Frances O'Roark Dowell | 
Libby on Wednesday
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder | 
There's a Bat in Bunk Five
by Paula Danziger |
People Might Hear You
by Robin Klein | 
Getting Near to Baby
by Audrey Couloumbis | 
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
by Robert Cormier | 
Flip-Flop Girl
by Katherine Paterson | 
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith, Jr. AKA Houdini
by Peter Johnson | 
It's an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World
by Paula Danziger |
Olive Barstow was in Martha Boyle's class until she was killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding her bicycle. Martha didn't know Olive -- not really. But after Olive's mother gives her a section from Olive's journal, Martha knows they could have been, would have been friends. And now Martha and her family are going to visit Godbee, Martha's grandmother, on Cape Cod for the rest of the summer -- as they do every year. The Boyles descent of Godbee's small house in a flurry of exuberance, mini-crises, diapers, and humor all mixed together. The ocean is still there. And the five Manning boys still live nearby. There is Jimmy Manning with his ever-present video camera. Jimmy Manning, who gives Martha her first kiss. And Tate, who seems to follow Martha with his eyes. And then there is Olive, who had always wanted to see the ocean, and who now haunts Martha's thoughts and dreams.