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Patricia Hruby Powell | A retelling of the rescue of Thailand cave explorers | Books

Remember the news about the 12 young soccer players trapped in the Tham Luang cave in Thailand in 2018? Rescue teams from all over the world arrived to find and remove the Thai kids and their young coach from deep within the Earth.

This remarkable story is retold by Thai-American author Christina Soontornvat in “All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team” (Candlewick 2020) — and what a book it is!

Soontornvat gives the reader a deep understanding of Thai culture — the people’s will to help, stay calm and be cheerful. We learn about each of the boys; coach Ek, who grew up in a Buddhist monastery preparing to be a monk; pithy details about the Thai volunteer engineer who pumped water out of the flooded cave; Thai Navy…

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