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Lifeboat 5
Author: Hood, Susan

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (2025)

Classification: Fiction
Physical Description: 288 p., ill., 22 cm

BTSB No: 462340

ISBN: 9781665943246

Ages: 8-12

Grades: 3-7

Subjects:
City of Benares (Ship) -- Fiction
Survival skills -- Fiction
Novels in verse
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- Fiction
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Fiction
Lifeboats -- Fiction
British -- Fiction

Price: $7.37

Summary:
British evacuees Bess Walder, 15, and Beth Cummings, 14, spend fourteen hours waiting to be rescued in the North Atlantic with their hands grasped across their overturned lifeboat after the Nazis torpedo the SS City of Benares on route to Canada in 1940.

Accelerated Reader Information:
   Interest Level: MG
   Reading Level: 4.40
   Points: 2.0   Quiz: 551148

Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (08/15/24)
School Library Journal (+) (10/18/24)

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