The Line Tender
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“Jenna Lamia expresses the youthful longing of Lucy, who still grieves for her late mother…Lamia balances Lucy’s grief with her determination to uncover the answer to a question her mother once studied: Why are white sharks appearing more frequently in New England? With perfect pacing pacing, Lamia blends the thrills and frustrations of Lucy’s research with her emotional path to healing. She dives deep to reflect Lucy’s powerful resilience and her desire to understand the people she has lost. Using just the right touches, Lamia also enlivens the caring adult characters in the story. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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, collecting shark data when she died suddenly. Lucy was seven. Since then Lucy and her father have kept their heads above water--thanks in large part to 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 on the Great White's return to Cape Cod. 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.
★"Confidently voiced."—Kirkus Reviews, starred
★"Richly layered."—Publishers Weekly, starred
★"A hopeful path forward."—Booklist, starred
★"Life-affirming."—BCCB, starred
★"Big-hearted." —Bookpage, starred
★“Will appeal to just about everyone.” – SLC, starred
★"Exquisitely, beautifully real."—Shelf Awareness, starred
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