Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2024]
©2024
©2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781665943246, 1665943246 :, 1665943246, 9781665943253, 1665943254, 9781665943246
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Based on a true story."
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
Ages 8-12
Grades 4-6