About this book

On a summer visit to her grandmother's cottage by the ocean, twelve-year-old Martha gains perspective on the death of a classmate, on her relationship with her grandmother, on her feelings for an older boy, and on her plans to be a writer.

Subjects

  • accelerated reader
  • children's fiction
  • children's literature
  • death
  • families
  • family
  • family life
  • family life, fiction
  • ficción juvenil
  • fiction
  • grandmothers
  • grandparents, fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • muerte
  • newbery honor
  • océano
  • reading level-grade 6
  • reading level-grade 7
  • reading level-grade 8
  • sea stories
  • self-perception
  • self-perception, fiction