The Highest Tide (Hardcover)

from PilgrimJess

"I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes." This is a beautifully evocative coming of age story. Who as a child has not visited rock pools along the beach turning stones with a net and bucket and marvelled what was lying beneath? Well this is a book that rek...

from delphica

I know it's not an exact science, but I was very surprised this is shelved in YA at my local library. It's one of those coming of age stories that is very lyrical and contemplative and, I assume, of more interest to adults. Anyway, this is a story about a young boy living in the Pacific Northwest...

from delphica

I know it's not an exact science, but I was very surprised this is shelved in YA at my local library. It's one of those coming of age stories that is very lyrical and contemplative and, I assume, of more interest to adults. Anyway, this is a story about a young boy living in the Pacific Northwest...

from co_coyote

The truest stories are always fiction, it seems to me, and few are better than this wonderful first novel by Jim Lynch. This book was recommended to me by an extremely knowledgeable bookseller in a small, independent bookstore in Edmonds, Washington on a recent visit to the San Juan Islands on a ...

from nbmars

The Highest Tide is a love story on several levels. Superficially, it is about the romantic love thirteen year old Miles O'Malley feels for his former babysitter Angie; his caring love for his older neighbor Florence; his comradely love for his friend Kenny Phelps; and his conflicted love for his...