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By Alexandra Teague

Echoing novels like Karen Russell's Swamplandia! and Carol Rifka Brunt's Tell the Wolves i am Home, Alexandra Teague's lighthearted coming-of-age debut is ideal for an individual who is navigated the unusual seas of adolescence--and lived to inform the tale.


A.Z. McKinney is at the shorelines of greatness. Now all she wishes is a boat.

When the ocean of Santiago seemed in a single day in a cow pasture in Arkansas, it appeared, to a couple, a non secular miracle. yet to highschool sophomore A.Z. McKinney, it really is marked her likelihood to make history--as its first oceanographer. All she wishes is to get out at the water.


Her plan is simpler acknowledged than performed, contemplating the Sea's eccentric proprietor is barely attracted to its use as a vacationer vacation spot for beachgoers and religious pilgrims. nonetheless, A.Z. is decided to discover the secrets and techniques of the Sea--even if it capability smuggling saline samples in her bathing suit.

Yet while a lovely, conceptual artist named Kristoff strikes to city, A.Z. realizes she could have discovered a primary mate. jointly, they make a plan to construct a ship and learn the ocean in mystery. yet from battling together with her ally to looking for a tourist-terrorizing alligator (that might or is probably not a crocodile), distractions are in every single place. quickly, A.Z.'s desires are at risk of being dashed upon the shore of dust Beach.


With her self-determined oceanic future at the line, A.Z. unearths herself at odds with every little thing she suggestion she knew approximately lifestyles, love, and the ocean. To get what she wishes, she'll need to come to a decision even if to sink or glide . . . yet which one comes first?

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