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"""A thrilling you-are-there survival story of wartime bravery and the unbreakable friendship between two heroic girls. Readers will be riveted from page one.""--Barbara Dee, author of Maybe He Just Likes You and Unstuck ""A true story of hope, resilience, and the bonds that save us. In Lifeboat 5, author Susan Hood shines a light on the darkness of war, reminding the reader that friendship is life's real hero in this powerful telling. An absolute must-read!"" --Elly Swartz, author of ""This poetic rendering captures how love and hope, friendship and the will to survive can conquer all. Susan Hood's Lifeboat 5 defines the force of the human spirit in one historic moment.""--Lesa Cline-Ransome, author of the Scott O'Dell Winner for Historic Fiction,"

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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 the Bank Street Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, 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.

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