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Ocean City/Making Waves #4
Boardwalk
While Kate worries about Justin's upcoming trip around the world in a sailboat, Grace wonders if Justin will come back to her once Kate goes to college, and Chelsea wonders if she can live without Connor. Original.
- GenresYoung AdultRomanceTeen
251 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1993
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Katherine Applegate
280 books6,273 followers#1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Applegate has written many books for young readers, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal.
Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books); and ODDER: AN OTTER’S STORY, illustrated by Charles Santoso (Feiwel & Friends).
She’s written or co-written three early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends). With Gennifer Choldenko, she co-authored DOGTOWN and MOUSE AND HIS DOG, illustrated by Wallace West (Feiwel & Friends).
Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY series, illustrated by Patricia Castelao, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY, and THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends); ODDER (Feiwel & Friends); and the forthcoming POCKET BEAR (Feiwel & Friends).
With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)
Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.
Katherine lives in Nevada with her husband and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Heirloom Literary and Mary Pender at WME.
Katherine’s picture books include THE BUFFALO STORM, illustrated by Jan Ormerod (Clarion Books); THE REMARKABLE TRUE STORY OF IVAN, THE SHOPPING MALL GORILLA, illustrated by G. Brian Karas (Clarion Books); SOMETIMES YOU FLY, illustrated by Jennifer Black Reinhardt (Clarion Books); and ODDER: AN OTTER’S STORY, illustrated by Charles Santoso (Feiwel & Friends).
She’s written or co-written three early chapter series for young readers: ROSCOE RILEY RULES, a seven-book series illustrated by Brian Biggs (HarperCollins); DOGGO AND PUPPER, a three-book series illustrated by Charlie Alder (Feiwel & Friends). With Gennifer Choldenko, she co-authored DOGTOWN and MOUSE AND HIS DOG, illustrated by Wallace West (Feiwel & Friends).
Books for middle-grade readers include HOME OF THE BRAVE (Feiwel & Friends); THE ONE AND ONLY series, illustrated by Patricia Castelao, including THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN, THE ONE AND ONLY BOB, THE ONE AND ONLY RUBY, and THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY (HarperCollins); the ENDLING trilogy (HarperCollins); CRENSHAW (Feiwel & Friends); WISHTREE (Feiwel & Friends); WILLODEEN (Feiwel & Friends); ODDER (Feiwel & Friends); and the forthcoming POCKET BEAR (Feiwel & Friends).
With her husband, Michael Grant, Katherine co-wrote ANIMORPHS, a long-running series that has sold over 35 million books worldwide. They also wrote two other series, REMNANTS and EVERWORLD, and a young adult novel, EVE AND ADAM (Feiwel & Friends.)
Katherine’s work has been translated into dozens of languages, and her books have won accolades including the Christopher Medal, the Golden Kite Award, the Bank Street Josette Frank Award, the California Book Award Gold Medal, the Crystal Kite Award, the Green Earth Book Honor Award, the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Many of her works have appeared on state master lists, Best of the Year lists, and Publishers Weekly, USA Today, and New York Times bestseller lists.
Katherine lives in Nevada with her husband and assorted pets. She is represented by Elena Giovinazzo at Heirloom Literary and Mary Pender at WME.
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June 12, 2023
This was so sad!
September 28, 2011
Katherine Applegate, Making Waves, vol. 4: Thrill (17th Street Productions, 1993)
I have described Katherine Applegate's Making Waves series (previously published as the Ocean City series) as “teen crack”, and the addiction continues in this fourth volume. Of ten (or possibly eleven), which makes me wonder—how in the world is she going to keep this pace up? We've already had two main characters come within a hair of getting married, a baby pop up, some near-miss fatalities, and, of course, relationship drama a-plenty. The details may change here—kinda—but the formula remains the same, and as usual, if you've fallen into the Applegate habit, once you've cracked the cover on this you'll burn through it in a few hours.
Chelsea and Connor's wedding was sabotaged by Connor's ex showing up with the kid she claims is his, but that doesn't necessarily mean either Chelsea or Connor has given up on the idea of actually getting hitched. Chelsea's conflicted, though, because she hasn't informed her family. Good thing she never sent that letter she wrote telling them about the wedding, right? Ah, but this is Applegate-land, where Murphy's Law reigns supreme. Meanwhile, Connor's ex's family wants the kid back, and her aunt happens to live in New York City...which will allow Kate to visit Columbia's campus as part of her deciding whether she wants to go to college in the fall or take Justin up on his offer to make her his first mate on his round-the-world cruise. Which leads, of course, to more tension between the two.
Reading an Applegate novel is a lot like watching a Nick Carter movie (the detective, not the singer). It's trashy, it's formulaic, it's not all that well put together, but by the time you've gotten through one or two, you've come to care about what happens to these characters (and, to be fair, Applegate's bunch, for all their faults, are a bit more intelligent than the average characters who populate series fiction). Unfortunately, ten years after the last re-release (if they've been put out under another name since, I haven't figured it out yet), the biggest problem you'll find now is getting hold of the silly things. ***
I have described Katherine Applegate's Making Waves series (previously published as the Ocean City series) as “teen crack”, and the addiction continues in this fourth volume. Of ten (or possibly eleven), which makes me wonder—how in the world is she going to keep this pace up? We've already had two main characters come within a hair of getting married, a baby pop up, some near-miss fatalities, and, of course, relationship drama a-plenty. The details may change here—kinda—but the formula remains the same, and as usual, if you've fallen into the Applegate habit, once you've cracked the cover on this you'll burn through it in a few hours.
Chelsea and Connor's wedding was sabotaged by Connor's ex showing up with the kid she claims is his, but that doesn't necessarily mean either Chelsea or Connor has given up on the idea of actually getting hitched. Chelsea's conflicted, though, because she hasn't informed her family. Good thing she never sent that letter she wrote telling them about the wedding, right? Ah, but this is Applegate-land, where Murphy's Law reigns supreme. Meanwhile, Connor's ex's family wants the kid back, and her aunt happens to live in New York City...which will allow Kate to visit Columbia's campus as part of her deciding whether she wants to go to college in the fall or take Justin up on his offer to make her his first mate on his round-the-world cruise. Which leads, of course, to more tension between the two.
Reading an Applegate novel is a lot like watching a Nick Carter movie (the detective, not the singer). It's trashy, it's formulaic, it's not all that well put together, but by the time you've gotten through one or two, you've come to care about what happens to these characters (and, to be fair, Applegate's bunch, for all their faults, are a bit more intelligent than the average characters who populate series fiction). Unfortunately, ten years after the last re-release (if they've been put out under another name since, I haven't figured it out yet), the biggest problem you'll find now is getting hold of the silly things. ***
October 19, 2007
Ah the Making Waves series...who among us doesn't love all the action of the other OC?
January 22, 2018
A nice ending to the original 4 books “the first summer” in this series.
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