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| The Highest Tide: A Novel | 
| Author: Jim Lynch
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Category: Book
List Price: $23.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 357604
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 1582346054
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781582346052
ASIN: 1582346054
Publication Date: September 8, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Some slight wear on book from reading, binding and pages are in very good shape.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Moving literary drama about growing up and ocean wonders September 23, 2007
I'm still reeling from the glorious images of the ocean that Jim Lynch put in my head with his prose. It made the ocean come alive for me, filled me with more wonder than I've had in a long time.
Miles O'Malley, the protagonist, lives right by the mudflats of Puget Sound, and because he cares enough to pay attention, he finds wonderful things like a dying giant squid, a ragfish, geoducks, sea cucumbers, and glowing, mating worms. And because he reads plenty, he knows these creatures well enough to perform the cheeky but harmless art of revenge of placing a sea cucumber in his friend's arms so that it vomits its internal organs onto the poor fellow's head. Change is rife in Miles' life. He's on the brink of a growth spurt, he's in love with his former babysitter and wonders if she'll ever feel the same way, and he's witnessing the crumbling of his parents' marriage. How do you know he wants his parents to stay together? After his parents realize how gifted he is, they want to reward him, but Miles asks only for them to stay together, even though in his boyish heart, he's always longed for a dog.
Miles is a huge fan of Rachel Carson, and after reading the passages that he quotes, I've become one too. Carson describes the oceans and its life in the language of a poet's dream. And as Miles says, she sums up "the entire history and role of the ocean in two sentences: 'In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.'"
Great read! September 6, 2007
This is a wonderfully written coming-of-age story. Lynch's characters are memorable and engaging and the setting is magical.
The Highest Tide August 28, 2007
This is a very interesting, heartwarming story that was very entertaining in a "restful" and absorbing way. I had read it before ordering it from Amazon to send to a friend, who also enjoyed it immensely and said he listened to only small passages at a time to "make it last."
Fun and mystery in the puget Sound August 21, 2007
I really liked this book. I am a huge fan of young adult novels and marine biology, so I was very excited to read this and was not disappointed. I felt like it captured the spirit of the Pacific Northwest well, and have recommended it to others, lent my copy to friends, AND given it as a present to several people.
 Just OK August 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As an aspiring marine biologist I was attracted to this book based on the description. A kid named Miles explores the Puget Sound at low tide at night. He finds a giant squid and everyone makes a big deal about Miles. The things that happened after he found that squid and another strange fish that washed up did not seem realistic and made the book seem silly.
There were a lot of dirty parts in the book that were not needed to bring the story forward. Most kids age 13 would not call a dirty chat line and ask questions like that.
I am going to look up the books by Rachel Carson who was mentioned a least 20 times in the book. The author takes most of the marine life information from her writings.
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