![]() ![]() Welcome to Nutmeg Book Drops: Middle School Edition, a podcast produced by Librarians ConneCT. 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. On this episode, we'll be discussing the 2023 Nutmeg Middle School nominee "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen. ![]()
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