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The Line Tender

By Kate Allen
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Penguin Random House Imprint Dutton ISBN

9780735231603

Awards and Honors Bulletin Blue Ribbons - 2019 <br> <i>Kirkus</i> Best Books - 2019 <br> <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Best Books - 2019 <br> <i>SLJ</i> Best Books - 2019

The Line Tender

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Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Underage Use,Language: Mild Language

Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart’s marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, preparing to swim with a great white, when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and her father have done okay—thanks in large part to her best friend, Fred, and a few close friends and neighbors. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to sleepy Rockport. On one steamy day, the tide brings a great white—and then another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was “meaningful” but no one can tell Lucy what it all meant. To survive the fresh wave of grief, Lucy must grab the line that connects her depressed father, a stubborn fisherman, and a curious old widower to her mother’s unfinished research. If Lucy can find a way to help this unlikely quartet follow the sharks her mother loved, she’ll finally be able to look beyond what she’s lost and toward what’s left to be discovered.

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