Henkes, K. (2003). Olive’s ocean. New York: Greenwillow Books.
Twelve-year-old Martha Boyle is preparing for her annual summer vacation to her grandmother’s house in Cape Cod when she receives an unexpected visitor. The visitor is the mother of one of Martha’s classmates Olive, who was an outcast at school, who has recently died in a fatal accident. Through one of Olive’s diary page, Martha discovers that one of Olive’s wishes in life was to become friends with her, and that the girls had similar dreams and likes. Throughout Martha’s vacation, she is haunted by Olive’s words as she experiences first love, heartache, family worries, and self-discovery.
Genre: Chapter Book: Realistic Fiction
Suggested Grade Level(s): Grades 5-8
Awards: 2004 Newbery Medal Honor
Schwartz, A. (1981). Scary stories to tell in the dark. (S. Gammell Illus.) New York:
HarperCollins Publishers.
This book is a collection of scary stories that is intended to entertain and intended for readers to carry on the tradition of story telling. The book is divided into types of stories: “jump stories,” ghost stories, stories about different creatures, recent scary stories, and funny scary stories. The drawings by Stephen Gammell add to the eeriness and grotesqueness of the stories.
Genre: Chapter Book: Fiction
Suggested Grade Level(s): Grades 5-8
Awards: none
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