The highest tide
Jim Lynch
Outer back cover: When thirteen-year-old Miles
O’Malley discovers a rare sea creature one unforgettable night, he unwittingly
becomes a local celebrity and is hounded by TV crews urging him to explain the
phenomenon. But Miles is just a kid on the verge of growing up, infatuated with
the girl next door, worried that his bickering parents will divorce, and
struggling to keep his world in tact.
The beginning of this book was really boring I
though. There was too much detail for me to think it was interesting. It was
also a bit hard because although I think sea life is interesting I don’t know a
lot of the names for stuff, especially in English. I googled some things but
there was just so much that I gave up in the end and just focused on the story.
The book got a bit more interesting after a few
chapters. The whole sea life side of the book was interesting, and the next
time I’m on a beach I will probably stop and look a lot more because of this
book, but what happened with the sea life was a bit over-the-top to be
believable. My favourite parts of the book were the parts with Miles best
friend, an old lady named Florence with a degenerative disease; she was a very
interesting old lady.
I think maybe this would be a good book for older
children and young teenagers that are already interested in sea-life, just so
they can read more about it but in a story rather than a textbook.
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