New York: Bloomsbury, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel about one boy's fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life. "One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O'Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an astonishing sight: a beached giant squid. As the first person to ever see a giant squid alive, the speed-reading Rachel Carson-obsessed insomniac instantly becomes a local curiosity. . . But Miles is really just a teenager on the verge of growing up . . . [this is an account of] the dramatic sea change for both Miles and the coastline that he adores over the course of a summer - one that will culminate with the highest tide in fifty years." SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp.