Olive Pea is 14.5 years old, but her math book says that rounds to 15 so she does. Olive lives with her mom, dad, 12-year-old brother, two floppy, squishy cats, and a maniacal beast of a puppy named Pepper (who now has a master’s degree in sock thievery and destruction). During the school day you can find Olive burning her algebra book, geeking out about Lord of the Flies’s themes and sub-sub themes in ludicrous amounts of unnecessary detail, cursing Chopin for his 32nd notes, wondering why on earth donkeys and elephants represent political parties, taking notes on tooth-filled lobster stomachs, exasperatedly trying to finish complete thoughts before semicolons, all the while writing down her favorite insults she learned in Latin class. She loves being part of The Lighthouse and is finding short story writing to be quite enjoyable, right up there with crafting, sketching and painting. (Side note: Olive says highschool is crazy, and making it a rule to only use oxford commas or no oxford commas for an ENTIRE BOOK is insane.)
The Lighthouse 