Bluebonnet Award
2006 · Children's · Nominee
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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.
Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends. But they weren't — and now all that is left are eerie connections between two girls who were in the same grade at school and who both kept the same secret without knowing it.
Now Martha can't stop thinking about Olive. A family summer on Cape Cod should help banish those thoughts; instead, they seep in everywhere.
And this year Martha's routine at her beloved grandmother's beachside house is complicated by the Manning boys. Jimmy, Tate, Todd, Luke, and Leo. But especially Jimmy. What if, what if, what if what if?
The world can change in a minute.
She'd been hit by a car on Monroe Street while riding her bicycle weeks ago. That was about all Martha knew.
Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends. But they weren't — and now all that is left are eerie connections between two girls who were in the same grade at school and who both kept the same secret without knowing it.
Now Martha can't stop thinking about Olive. A family summer on Cape Cod should help banish those thoughts; instead, they seep in everywhere.
And this year Martha's routine at her beloved grandmother's beachside house is complicated by the Manning boys. Jimmy, Tate, Todd, Luke, and Leo. But especially Jimmy. What if, what if, what if what if?
The world can change in a minute.
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Virginia Readers Choice Award
2006 · Middle School · Nominee
Young Reader's Choice Award
2006 · Junior/Grades 4-6 · Nominee
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award
2005 · Grades 4-6 · Nominee
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
2005 · Children's · Nominee
North Carolina Children's Book Award
2005 · Junior Book · Nominee
Newbery Medal
2004 · Children's · Honor Book
L.A. Times Book Prize
2003 · Young Adult Literature · Finalist
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