Into the killing seas

Description:

In 1945 twelve-year-old Patrick and his younger brother Teddy stowaway on the U.S.S. Indianapolis in a desparate attempt to get back to the Philippines where they last saw their parents, just before the Japanese invasion--but when the ship is sunk they find themselves clinging to a piece of debris without food or water, and with hungry sharks circling below. In 1945, 12-year-old Patrick and his younger brother stowaway on the USS "Indianapolis" in a desperate attempt to get back to the Philippines where they last saw their parents just before the Japanese invasion. The plot contains violence.

subjects: War stories,  Brothers,  World War, 1939-1945,  Juvenile fiction,  Survival at sea,  History,  Fiction,  Children's fiction,  Ships, fiction,  World war, 1939-1945, fiction,  Ocean, fiction,  War, fiction,  Survival, fiction,  Indianapolis (Cruiser),  Survival,  Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks

Places: Pacific Area