Into the killing seas

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The work Into the killing seas represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Kewanna-Union Township Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Into the killing seas

Statement of responsibility

by Michael P. Spradlin

Creator

• trueSpradlin, Michael P.
• Spradlin, Michael P.,

Author

• Spradlin, Michael P.,

Subject

• Brothers -- Juvenile fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueIndianapolis (Cruiser)
• Indianapolis (Cruiser) -- Fiction
• Indianapolis (Cruiser) -- History -- Juvenile fiction
• truePacific Area
• truePreteen boys
• trueSecond World War era (1939-1945) -- 1939 -- 1945
• trueSharks
• trueStowaways
• trueSurvival
• Survival -- Fiction
• trueSurvival stories
• War fiction
• War stories
• trueWar stories
• trueWorld War II
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area -- History -- Juvenile fiction
• Survival at sea -- Juvenile fiction
• true1940s -- 1940 -- 1949
• trueBrothers
• Brothers -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• trueWar stories
• trueSurvival stories
• Juvenile fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• War fiction

Language

eng

Summary

In 1945, twelve-year-old Patrick and his younger brother Teddy stow away on the U.S.S. Indianapolis in a desperate 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

Storyline

• truePlot-driven
• trueAction-packed

Tone

• trueGruesome

Writing style

• trueAttention-grabbing

Awards note

Young Hoosier Book Intermediate Grades 6-8 Award nominee, 2017-2018.

Cataloging source

NJQ/DLC

Dewey number

• [Fic]
• 813.54

Index

no index present

Intended audience

• 640
• 640L
• Decoding demand: 90 (very high)
• Semantic demand: 100 (very high)
• Syntactic demand: 88 (very high)
• Structure demand: 88 (very high)

Intended audience source

• Lexile
• Lexile
• Lexile

Interest level

MG

LC call number

PZ7.S7645

LC item number

In 2015

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile

640

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 4
• 7

Nature of contents

bibliography

Reading level

4.6

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR

Target audience

pre adolescent