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Published
2024
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Subgenre
Contemporary
Words
22,380
Section
Middle Grade

Deep Water

Twelve-year-old Tully sets out to become the youngest person to swim 12.1 miles across Lake Tahoe, hoping it will bring her absent mother home. During the long swim, painful memories come back and a storm moves in.