On a water picnic at Wecanicut, the children finish the olives and do the only natural thing with the empty bottle: write a shipwrecked mariner’s message and throw it out to sea. The answer that comes back starts a friendship with the Bottle Man, a stranger with secrets of his own, during a summer by the shore in the years of the First World War.
A charming seaside story for middle-grade readers, told in a lively child’s voice. Download the free EPUB.