Moheet Olive (Olive's Ocean- Arabic edition)

by Henkes, Kevin; Abdel Karim Al Sayed, Abdel Maqsud

• ISBN13: 9789992179154
• ISBN10: 9992179155
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-12-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing

Summary

Olive Barstow had been in Matha Boyle's class until she was killed by a hit-and-run driver while riding her bicycle. Then Martha finds out that Olive, a girl she never really knew, wrote in her journal about wanting to be friends with Martha, and wanting to be a writer. Martha can't stop thinking about Olive, even when she goes on vacation to stay with her grandmother by ocean with her family. In the midst of experiencing first love, loneliness, embarrassment and fears of her beloved grandmother growing old, Martha allows Olive's death to teach her lessons about living.

Author Biography

Kevin Henkes became an author-illustrator at the age of nineteen. Hoping to find a publisher, he flew from his home in Racine, Wisconsin to New York City with his portfolio. Susan Hirschman at Greenwillow Books made his dream come true and his first picture book, All Alone, was published in 1981. Since then, Kevin Henkes has published twenty-five picture books and eight novels for older readers. Kevin Henkes is the author and illustrator of the Caldecott Honor Book Owen, the ABBY Award Winner Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and the New York Times #1 Bestseller Wemberly Worried.