Find out if she does in "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen, published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group. 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. 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 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. But June of her twelfth summer brings more than the end of school and a heat wave to Rockport. 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.
In fact, she was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusetts, collecting shark data, when she died suddenly. Here's a quick preview: Wherever the sharks led, Lucy Everhart's marine-biologist mother was sure to follow.
This novel is a deep dive into grief, understanding, and acceptance all while surrounded by found family. Hilarious and big-hearted, Thirsty Mermaids is “a bright, bold shot of fun with a chaser of feels” ( Kirkus Reviews).On this episode, we'll be discussing the 2023 Nutmeg Middle School nominee "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen. Which means everything from: enlisting the aid of their I-know-we-just-met-can-we-crash-with-you bartender friend, struggling to make sense of the world around them, to even trying to get a job with no skill set…all while attempting to somehow return to the sea and making the most of their current situation with tenacity and camaraderie (especially if someone else is buying). But the good times abruptly end the next morning as, through the haze of killer hangovers, the trio realizes they never actually learned how to break the spell and are now stuck on land for the foreseeable future. The Eisner and Lambda Literary Award nominated graphic novel about a group of mermaids trapped on dry land-from prolific comic artist and writer Kat Leyh, creator of the acclaimed Snapdragon and coauthor of the bestselling Lumberjanes series!įresh out of shipwreck wine, three tipsy mermaids decide to magically masquerade as humans and sneak onto land to indulge in much more drinking and a whole lot of fun in the heart of a local seaside tourist trap.
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