Olive’s Ocean

From the moment readers begin reading the nonfiction piece Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes (2003), they are immediately drawn into the suspension and tension that Henkes eloquently intertwined into his book. This remarkable book tells the story of Martha and the late Olive “who could have been best 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” (Henkes, 2003, p.1).