Life or Death: Surviving the Impossible

✍ Scribed by Verstraete, Larry

• Book ID: 107907825
• Publisher: Scholastic Canada
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780545997904

✦ Synopsis

More than 30 riveting -- and true! -- survival stories from Larry Verstraete, the master of adventure non-fiction.

A slave in mid-1800s North Carolina squeezes into a 2' x 3' box and has friends mail him to Philadelphia . . . and freedom. A doctor injects 8000 Polish Jews with a substance that makes it appear they have typhus, getting them sent into quarantine instead of to death camps. Apollo 13 astronauts use duct tape, a hose, and other spare parts to fix failed machinery and

bring their spacecraft safely home.

Following the popularity of the award-winning At the Edge: Daring Acts in Desperate Times , winner of the Silver Birch Award for nonfiction, this new collection from Larry Verstraete features over 30 incredible true stories of survivors who found creative ways to beat impossible odds.