Lifeboat 5

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Lifeboat 5

Title:

Lifeboat 5

Author:

Hood, Susan, 1954- author.

ISBN:

9781665943246

Personal Author:

Hood, Susan, 1954- author.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

General Note:

"Based on a true story."

Abstract:

Based on the lives, rescue, and continuing friendship of British evacuees Bess Walder, 15, and Beth Cummings, 14, who spent fourteen hours in the North Atlantic with their hands grasped across their overturned lifeboat after the Nazis torpedoed the SS City of Benares on route to Canada in 1940. Includes historical notes.

Reading Level:

Ages 8-12. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Grades 4-6. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Corporate Subject:

City of Benares (Ship) -- Juvenile fiction.

City of Benares (Ship) -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Shipwreck survival -- Juvenile fiction.

Survival -- Juvenile fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Juvenile fiction.

Lifeboats -- Juvenile fiction.

British -- Juvenile fiction.