The Highest Tide (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Highest Tide Saturday, August 1 2009.

• “A poignant coming-of-age story and an enchanting primer on the life aquatic . The Highest Tide is as crisp and clean as a cool dip into the water, and just about as refreshing.— Entertainment Weekly 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 shadowed by people curious as to whether this speed-reading, Rachel Carson obsessed teenager is just an observant boy or an unlikely prophet. But Miles is really just a kid on the verge of growing up, infatuated with the girl next door, worried that his bickering parents will divorce, and fearful that everything, even the bay he loves, is shifting away from him. As the sea continues to offer up discoveries from its mysterious depths, Miles struggles to deal with the difficulties that attend the equally mysterious process of growing up. A national bestseller and a Book Sense pick in hardcover

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Highest Tide Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Jim Lynch: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Highest Tide Friday, July 17 2009.

• I LEARNED EARLYON that if you tell people what you see at low tide they'll think you're exaggerating or lying when you're actually just explaining strange and wonderful things as clearly as you can.