Into the killing seas

By Michael P. Spradlin

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

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.