The world can change in a minute ...Summer is Martha's favourite time. Every year she goes to stay in her grandmother's beautiful beachside house, where everything is perfect. But this year is different. There are the Manning boys, for a start - Jimmy, Tate, Todd, Luke and Leo. And then there's Olive - a girl Martha barely knew. A girl who suddenly died. A summer of what-ifs and might-have-beens. A summer of secrets and confusion. A summer Martha will never forget ...

 

There are 224 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Penguin Books Ltd .

A brand new author to the Puffin list, Kevin Henke's novels include The Birthday Room, Sun & Spoon and Words of Stone. Among his acclaimed picture books, many of which are published here in the UK, are the number one bestseller Wemberley Worried, the Caldecott Honor Book Owen and the charming Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. Kevin Henkes lives in Madison, Wisconsin.