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Hood, Susan

Summary: 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 en route to Canada in 1940. Includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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Van Dusen, Chris

Summary: After courageously swimming to shore when the ship that they are traveling on sinks and the wretched captain does nothing to rescue them, circus animals find a way to become a valued part of a coastal community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E Van

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VAN

Golding, William

Summary: This much-acclaimed debut novel uses a group of shipwrecked children to show the strengths and weaknesses of adult society.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alianza Editorial 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FIC GOL

Greenlaw, Rachel

Summary: "On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRE

Smith, Wilbur A.

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "South Africa, 1820. When Ann Waite discovers a shipwreck in Algoa Bay she is stunned to find survivors: a scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the distance alone, Ann is left to raise the young child, Harry, in place of the baby she tragically lost at sea. Disaster and hardship befall Ann and Harry, and desperation drives them into the path of the mysterious shipwrecked...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Zaffre 2024

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Ellinas, Georghia

Summary: A picture book retelling of William Shakespeare's play, Twelfth night, a comedy centering on mistaken identities and unrequited love, set in the kingdom of Illyria.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELL

Farook, Nizrana

Summary: Razi, a local fisherboy, is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat bobbing into view. With a chill, he notices a small, still hand hanging over the side. Inside is Zheng, who's escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea monsters and missing treasure. But the villains who are after Zheng are soon after Razi and his sister, Shifa, too.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FAR

Sepetys, Ruta

Summary: In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEP

Monroe, Mary Alice

Summary: Jake has a 'new' boat, but when Jake, Macon, and Lovie, go fishing the engine dies, and they end up shipwrecked on a small, uninhabited island far from Dewees, struggling to survive while hoping for rescue.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MON

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