All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team

Winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Young People''s LiteratureA 2021 Newbery Honor BookA 2021 Robert F. Sibert Honor BookA 2021 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults FinalistA 2021 Orbis Pictus Honor Book. A unique account of the amazing Thai cave rescue told in a heart-racing you-are-there style that blends suspense science and cultural insight.. On June 23 2018 twelve young players of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach enter a cave in northern Thailand seeking an afternoon’s adventure. But when they turn to leave rising floodwaters block their path out. The boys are trapped! Before long news of the missing team spreads launching a seventeen-day rescue operation involving thousands of rescuers from around the globe. As the world sits vigil people begin to wonder: how long can a group of ordinary kids survive in complete darkness with no food or clean water? Luckily the Wild Boars are a very extraordinary ordinary group. Combining firsthand interviews of rescue workers with in-depth science and details of the region''s culture and religion author Christina Soontornvat—who was visiting family in Northern Thailand when the Wild Boars went missing—masterfully shows how both the complex engineering operation above ground and the mental struggles of the thirteen young people below proved critical in the life-or-death mission. Meticulously researched and generously illustrated with photographs this page-turner includes an author’s note describing her experience meeting the team detailed source notes and a bibliography to fully immerse readers in the most ambitious cave rescue in history.