Hood, Susan, 1954-

Lifeboat 5 / Life boat five Susan Hood. - 1st ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2024. - 259 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

"Based on a true story."

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN: 9781665943246 (hc.) 9781665943253 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2023045499

Subjects--Corporate Names:
City of Benares (Ship)--Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Shipwreck survival--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Fiction.
Lifeboats--Fiction.
British--Fiction.
Novels in verse, juvenile.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction, Juvenile.
War fiction, Juvenile.

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]