Julia and the Shark
Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Ten-year-old Julia spends the summer on Unst in Shetland, Scotland, while her father automates a lighthouse and her scientist mother searches for a Greenland shark. Her mother believes the long-lived, slow-moving sharks could aid dementia treatment research. Homesick at first, Julia makes a local friend named Kin. As funding disappears and no shark is found, her mother’s fixation intensifies, bringing strain to the family and revealing that her mother is experiencing a serious mental-health crisis.
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