| Description |
371 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
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Age level: age Children lcdgt |
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Age level: age Preteens lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu Fourth grade students lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu Fifth grade students lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu Sixth grade students lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu Seventh grade students lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu Eighth grade students lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu Middle school students lcdgt |
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Educational level group: edu School children lcdgt |
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National/regional group: nat Minnesotans lcdgt |
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Gender group: gdr Women lcdgt |
| Note |
"Originally published Dutton Children's Books, and imprint of Peguin Random House LLC, 2019." |
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Nutmeg Book Award nominee, Grade 7-8 Middle School, 2023. |
| Summary |
"Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier."-- Provided by publisher |
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Funny, poignant, and moving, The Line Tender is a story of nature's enduring mystery and a girl determined to find meaning within it. 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 on one steamy June day in her twelfth summer, the tide brings a great white - and the another tragedy, cutting short a friendship everyone insists was "meaningful" but no one can tell Lucy what it all meant. To survive a new wave of grief, Lucy must grab the line connecting 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. Only with their help, and her mother's beloved sharks, will Lucy finally be able to look beyond what she's lost and toward what's yet to be discovered. -- From dust jacket |
| Audience |
710L Lexile |
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Sentence length: 3 (medium) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) Lexile. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 9.0. |
| Subject |
Sharks -- Juvenile fiction.
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Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
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Single-parent families -- Juvenile fiction.
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Loss (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Grief -- Juvenile fiction.
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Families -- Massachusetts -- Rockport -- Juvenile fiction.
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Rockport (Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Family life -- Massachusetts -- Rockport -- Fiction.
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JUVENILE FICTION -- Social Themes -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
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JUVENILE FICTION -- Family -- General (see also headings under Social Themes)
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JUVENILE FICTION -- Social Themes -- Friendship.
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Single-parent families. (OCoLC)fst01119481
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Sharks. (OCoLC)fst01115299
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Loss (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01002621
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Grief. (OCoLC)fst00947883
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
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Massachusetts -- Rockport.
(OCoLC)fst01218313
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Sharks -- Fiction.
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Friendship -- Fiction.
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Single-parent families -- Fiction.
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Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Bereavement -- Fiction.
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Families -- Massachusetts -- Rockport (Town) -- Fiction.
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Rockport (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Children's stories.
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Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Novels.
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| ISBN |
9780735231610 (paperback) |
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0735231613 (paperback) |
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9781544454092 (FollettBound) |
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1544454090 (FollettBound) |
