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Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books/ Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of a harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. This is a fast-paced, uplifting story that...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1932, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years, wreaking havoc on land and creating a wind-whipped peril of the freezing Atlantic. In the early hours of Monday, February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Fort Mercer and the Pendleton, broke in two. The Coast Guard raced its cutters to the Fort Mercer to rescue the men huddled in the halves, and when the Pendleton proved to be in danger of capsizing,...
Author
Series
True rescue volume 4
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A riveting WWII account of survival at sea-Book 4 in the True Rescue series from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours."--
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