The Line Tender

Funny,poignantand deeply movingThe Line Tender is a story of nature’s enduring mystery and a girl determined to find meaning and connection within it. Wherever the sharks ledLucy Everhart’s marine-biologist mother was sure to follow. In factshe was on a boat far off the coast of Massachusettscollecting 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 daythe tide brings a great white–and then another tragedycutting short a friendship everyone insists was \