| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
140 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Adaptation of: Close to shore. New York : Broadway Books, c2001. |
| Summary |
Details the first documented cases in American history of sharks attacking swimmers, which occured along the Atlantic coast of New Jersey in 1916. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-139). |
| Contents |
Last man in the water -- Let us do justice to sharks -- Missile of teeth -- Train to the coast -- Sea monster -- Nightmare of centuries -- Detection and concealment -- Distance swimmers -- "He's a big fellow and awful hungry" -- Out of the water -- Arrival of a man-eater -- Myths of antiquity -- Long-range cruising rogue -- Shark scare -- Hunger of madness -- creek -- Uneven battle -- "I thought it was going to swallow me" -- To see its body drawn up on the shore -- Shark emergency -- Fishing -- Shark would endure -- Epilogue. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.3 6.0 68059. |
| Subject |
Shark attacks -- Juvenile literature.
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Shark attacks -- New Jersey -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Shark attacks.
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Sharks.
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| ISBN |
0375822313 trade |
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0375922318 library binding |
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