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Fighting to Survive Being Lost at Sea

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Year 2019 Edition year
Pages 65 Compact read
Vibe tense hopeful

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Best for readers who...

Good fit if you want...

  • You enjoy short nonfiction sea narratives and rescue details.
  • You seek juvenile nonfiction that explains survival techniques and real incidents.
  • If you enjoy slow-burn romance, the protagonist changes in believable steps.

Maybe skip if...

  • You want a long, novelistic maritime epic rather than brief true cases.
  • You prefer adult forensic survival analysis instead of child‑friendly accounts.

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Summary

Elizabeth Raum collects compact, factual survival stories of people stranded at sea—how they improvised, stayed alive, and were rescued—presented for younger readers with clear timelines and dramatic detail.

Edition on file: 2019 • Compass Point Books • 65 pages • ISBN 9780756561857.

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Quick Easy to move through

Quick commitment. This looks like a same-day or weekend read rather than a project.

What stands out here

The clearest standout is the reading lane it sits in: tense • hopeful.

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Best approached in a couple of steady sittings rather than in constant tiny fragments.

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True accounts of ordinary kids and sailors who fought to survive being lost at sea, told in gripping juvenile nonfiction by Elizabeth Raum.

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