Mar 02
Jim Lynch’s The Highest Tide is actually on the same wave length with Mark Twain’s The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. Both of them are “Literatures” (mark my capital L) and interesting and for kids and also mature reader-friendly.
It tells about the protagonist’s conflicts during three summer weeks. During t his time, he has to struggle with his parents’ pre-divorce relationship, his hidden love to his ex-baby sitter cum neighbor who prepares herself for college, and he also faces his sudden fame after finding a dead giant squid and another giant fish and attracting media’s and people’s attention with his mastery of marine biology as he reads from Rachel Carson’s works. Continue reading »
