There's nothing Carly loves more than diving . . . until she and her friend Montana try just one last dive and Montana doesn't come up out of the water. Carly's voice rings so true, readers will feel as if she's sitting right beside them, talking to her best friend.
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Gr 3-6-Ten-year-old Carly is having a wonderful summer of diving, spending weekends at her family's island cabin, and enjoying her friends. Then one weekend, her best friend dives too deeply and is seriously injured. Carly spends the rest of the novel dealing with her emotions, feeling guilty that the accident happened at her lake cabin and guilty that she can still compete in the sport while Montana is unable to walk. The author uses a very kidlike and conversational voice. Carly tells readers small bits about her deceased father, and then advises them, "-don't ask me about it" as if there could be a two-way dialogue. The novel deals somewhat with relationships in stepfamilies, somewhat with friends becoming handicapped, and somewhat with competition diving. With all that to offer, readers are sure to find something to enjoy here.-Debbie Whitbeck, West Ottawa Public Schools, Holland, MI
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Gr. 4-6. Carly, 10, likes to dive, and she's very good at it, whether she's practicing at her local pool in Victoria, Canada, or diving with friends from a rock near her family's island cabin. Her candid first-person, present-tense narrative will draw middle-graders as she grumbles about her "New Dad" and her stepfamily (her Real Dad is dead), shops at the Gap, and tries to act cool. The island setting is idyllic until a catastrophe happens: her best friend, Montana, dives from the rock and breaks her back on a big sunken log. The shock of the accident in the island paradise is not sensationalized, and as Montana slowly recovers, Carly overcomes her grief and depression to dive again like a champion. She also accepts her stepdad. The diving action is exhilarating, the stepfamily dynamics are realistic, and readers will appreciate Carly's realization about "all the stuff that could happen that you can't control at all." Hazel Rochman
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