What the Tide Owes
Fifteen-year-old Cal Verrill’s father left him three things: a wooden boat that leaks faster than the pump can fight, a $41,300 debt to the man who sells the whole town its fuel, and a ledger hidden under the forepeak bunk. The ledger says Harrow’s Neck has been telling itself a lie for eleven years about who really owns the harbor, and every name in it belongs to someone Cal loves. His mother wants him gone before winter. The tide is coming in either way. Ages 13–16. How a working harbor runs (moorings, wharf, buyers, bait, fuel and co-ops), how debt can quietly become control, and that loyalty and truth are...Copper Seal · Certificate Nº 0091-9AIBOOKS · booksai.store
What the Tide Owes
by Carter Luense
A harbor, a ledger, and the people he loves
Fifteen-year-old Cal Verrill’s father left him three things: a wooden boat that leaks faster than the pump can fight, a $41,300 debt to the man who sells the whole town its fuel, and a ledger hidden under the forepeak bunk. The ledger says Harrow’s Neck has been telling itself a lie for eleven years about who really owns the harbor, and every name in it belongs to someone Cal loves. His mother wants him gone before winter. The tide is coming in either way.
Ages 13–16. How a working harbor runs (moorings, wharf, buyers, bait, fuel and co-ops), how debt can quietly become control, and that loyalty and truth are sometimes the same job.
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