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The Last True Poets of the Sea
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By Julia Drake
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Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family’s missing piece—the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes—and the bridges she builds along the way—may be the start of something like survival.
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2020 CCBC Choices List
2021 Best Fiction for Young Adults (BFYA) -
"At once hilarious, insightful, and swashbuckling, Drake's debut is a lyrical adventure like no other."David Arnold, New York Times best-selling author of Mosquitoland
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"As warm and bright as a beach bonfire on a hazy summer night, The Last True Poets of the Sea will lift you up on a tide of love and lyricism, and carry you away, laughing and crying."Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author
- On Sale
- Oct 1, 2019
- Page Count
- 400 pages
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- ISBN-13
- 9781368048088
About the Author

Julia Drake’s debut novel The Last True Poets of the Sea received the 2020 New England Book Award, six starred reviews, and was named a 2019 Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist, among other publications. She received her BA in Spanish from Williams College, and her MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, where she also taught writing to first-year students. She currently works teaching writing to undergraduates. She lives in Philadelphia with her partner and their rescue rabbit, Ned.
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