9 best-selling adventure books like Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood

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Lifeboat 12

By: Susan Hood

4.19

Format: 337 pages, Unknown Binding

With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects h…

If you liked the adventure plot in Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. House Arrest

By: K.A. Holt

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

Stealing is bad. Yeah. I know. But my brother Levi is always so sick, and his medicine is always so… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Holt's House Arrest book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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2. Knockout

By: K.A. Holt

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Levi just wants to be treated like a typical kid. As a baby, he had a serious disease that caused h… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Holt's Knockout book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult

3. Unbound: A Novel in Verse

By: Ann E. Burg

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of All the Broken Pieces and Serafina's Promise comes a new novel-in-… read more

Similar categories in Ann E. Burg's Unbound: A Novel in Verse book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

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4. Alone

By: Megan E. Freeman

4.14

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more

Similar categories in Megan E. Freeman's Alone book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • poetry
  • survival
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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5. Something Like Home

By: Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only f… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Beatriz Arango's Something Like Home book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • poetry
  • middle grade
  • fiction
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6. A Work in Progress

By: Jarrett Lerner

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A young boy struggles with body image in this poignant and “perceptive” ( Publishers Weekly , starr… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett Lerner's A Work in Progress book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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7. The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

4.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Marsh's The Lost Year book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Lifeboat 12

By: Susan Hood

4.19

Format: 337 pages, Unknown Binding

With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects h… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12 book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • poetry
  • survival
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Two Degrees

By: Alan Gratz

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Fire. Ice. Flood. Three climate disasters. Four kids fighting for their lives. Akira is ridin… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Two Degrees book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • survival
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Cubs are super cute, but you do not want to come between a cub and it's mother. Momma Bear will wreck you."

-Alan Gratz, Two Degrees

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10. Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor

By: Alan Gratz

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz ( Refugee ; Ground Zero ; Two Degr… read more

Similar categories in Alan Gratz's Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Iceberg

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the Titanicand as she explores, attempti… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Iceberg book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • survival
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Over the next two hours, I would learn something about time. Something devastating. There are moments in life when time moves with its own will, not bound by any timekeeper's measure. It may speed up…"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Iceberg

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12. Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"

By: Deborah Heiligman

4.15

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacua… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Heiligman's Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship" book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • survival
  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • world war ii
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13. 96 Miles

By: J.L. Esplin

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Dad always said if things get desperate, it’s okay to drink the water in the toilet. I never though… read more

Similar categories in J.L. Esplin's 96 Miles book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • survival
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
"But the thing is, if you do survive, when it's all said and done, you still have to live with yourself."

-J.L. Esplin, 96 Miles

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14. Uprising

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Uprising book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. The Labors of Hercules Beal

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Gary D. Schmidt, a warm and witty novel in the tradition of The Wednesday… read more

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's The Labors of Hercules Beal book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
"And when Achilles went inside the Vampire said to me, "You all right?" I nodded. "I'm okay." "Okay is good enough for now," she said."

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

"Most people don't think we even look like brothers," I said. "You do when you're asleep," she said. "Your face relaxes, and you stop worrying, and all that grit you two carry around falls away, and y…"

-Gary D. Schmidt, The Labors of Hercules Beal

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16. The Canyon's Edge

By: Dusti Bowling

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A novel in verse about a young girl's struggle for survival after a climbing trip with her father g… read more

Similar categories in Dusti Bowling's The Canyon's Edge book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • poetry
  • survival
  • adventure
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
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17. Lines of Courage

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.30

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futu… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Lines of Courage book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • adventure
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The Night War book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Across So Many Seas

By: Ruth Behar

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Spanning over 500 years, Pura Belpré Award winner Ruth Behar's epic novel tells the stories of four… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Behar's Across So Many Seas book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Mirror to Mirror

By: Rajani LaRocca

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Rajani LaRocca’s breathtaking follow-up to the Newbery Honor– and Walter Award–winning Red, Whit… read more

Similar categories in Rajani LaRocca's Mirror to Mirror book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • poetry
  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
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21. Becoming Muhammad Ali

By: James Patterson

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From two heavy-hitters in children's literature comes a critically acclaimed biographical novel of … read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Becoming Muhammad Ali book and Susan Hood's Lifeboat 12

  • poetry
  • historical
  • middle grade

6 Top war books like Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood

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Susan Hood

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Alan Gratz

4.24

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Deborah Heiligman

4.15

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4.42

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All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

Leslie Connor

4.31

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Rescue

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4.31

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Alan Gratz

4.15

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