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Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis

Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
Nelson, Pete
AR Quiz No. 59211 EN

This book recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.

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ATOS Book Level: 8.3
Interest Level: Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
AR Points: 11.0
Rating: 3.0
Word Count: 59965
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Topic - Subtopic: Adventure-Rescue/Save; Adventure-Survival; Animals-Sharks; Award Winners-YALSA Top Ten; Award Winners-IRA's Teachers' Choice Award; Award Winners-Christopher Award; Community Life-Justice/Legal Issues; Disasters-Shipwrecks; Military-Navy; Recommended Reading-Junior Library Guild Selection; Recommended Reading-NY Publ. Library Best Books for the Teen Age; Recommended Reading-NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies; Recommended Reading-YALSA Popular Paperbacks; Recommended Reading-IRA/CBC Choice; Recommended Reading-YALSA Best Books for YA; Wars-World War II;
Series:

Publisher LCCN ISBN Year Published Page Count
Delacorte Press 2001053774 0-385-72959-6 2002 201
    0-385-90033-3    
    978-0-385-90033-1    
Delacorte Press Not Available 0-385-73091-8 2003  
Delacorte Press 2001053774 978-0-385-72959-8 2002 201
Delacorte Press Not Available 978-0-385-73091-4 2003  
FollettBound Not Available 0-329-34496-X 2003  
FollettBound Not Available 1-4131-6182-0 2003  
FollettBound Not Available 978-0-329-34496-2 2003  
FollettBound Not Available 978-1-4131-6182-3 2003  
Tandem Library Books Not Available 0-613-70819-9 2003 224
Tandem Library Books Not Available 978-0-613-70819-7 2003 224
Turtleback Books   0-606-28976-3    
Turtleback Books   978-0-606-28976-4