Pub Date: September 3, 2019
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2017034872
Lexile Code: 0610
Features: Bibliography, Maps, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 13
Physical Info: 1.00" H x 7.63" L x 5.19" W ( 0.50 lbs) 336 pages
Description: The word 'lifeboat' is superimposed over '12' on the book's jacket.
Brief description: Susan Hood is the award-winning author of many books for young readers, including Ada's Violin, Alias Anna, Harboring Hope, The Last Straw, Lifeboat 12, and Shaking Things Up. Susan is the recipient of the E.B. White Honor Award, two Christopher Awards, the Américas Award, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award, and two Bank Street Flora Stieglitz Straus Awards, given to "a distinguished work of nonfiction that serves as an inspiration to young people." In addition to winning many state reading awards, Susan's books have been named a National Jewish Book Awards finalist, a Sydney Taylor Notable Book, a NCTE Notable Poetry Book, a NSTA Best Stem Book of the Year, an Amazon Teachers' Pick, a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and a Bank Street Best Book of the Year. Visit her at SusanHoodBooks.com.
Review Quotes: A 2019 Golden Kite Middle Grade Fiction Award Winner