Highest Tide

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Highest Tide

A Novel

Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction

Author: Jim Lynch

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Language: English

Published by: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Published on: 1st September 2010

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 272 pages

ISBN: 9781596918481


A stunning coming-of-age novel about one boy's mystical bond to the sea.

"[A] graceful and inventive first novel." - The New York Times Book Review

"The fertile strangeness of marine tidal life becomes a subtly executed metaphor for the bewilderments of adolescence in this tender and authentic coming-of-age novel." - Publishers Weekly

"As crisp and clean as a cool dip into the water, and just about as refreshing." - Entertainment Weekly

"Move over, Holden Caulfield; here’s Miles. . . . An uncommon and uncommonly good coming-of-age novel." - Chicago Tribune

Plot Summary

One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley sneaks out of his house and goes exploring on the tidal flats of Puget Sound. When he discovers a rare giant squid, he instantly becomes a local phenomenon. But Miles is really just a kid on the verge of growing up, infatuated with the girl next door, worried that his parents will divorce and fearful that everything, even the bay he loves, is shifting away from him.

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