by Susan Hood
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hood, Susan, author.
Title: Lifeboat 12 / Susan Hood.
Other titles: Lifeboat twelve
Description: First edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2018] | Summary: In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed.
Includes historical notes.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017034872| ISBN 9781481468831 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781481468855 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Novels in verse. | Survival—Fiction. | World War, 1939–1945—Evacuation of civilians—Great Britain--Fiction. | World War, 1939–1945—Children—Fiction. | Ocean travel—Fiction. | Ocean liners—Fiction. | Lifeboats—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.5.H665 Lif 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034872