Words composed of sea and sky
(Book)

Cape Cod. Michaela Dunn dreams of getting into an art school, but her stepfather refuses to fund a trip for a poetry workshop. Michaela enters a local contest searching for a poet to write the dedication plaque for a statue honoring Captain Benjamin Churchill, a whaler who died at sea 100 years ago. Michaela discovers the 1862 diary of Leta Townsend, and learns that in 1862 Townsend wrote poetry under the name of a boy who left for sea to hunt whales. When Captain Churchill returns after his rumored death, Leta falls for him. But is she falling for the actual captain or the boy she constructed in her imagination? -- adapted from jacket