Marc Aronson is the acclaimed author of Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert, which earned four starred reviews. He is also the author of Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, winner of the ALA’s first Robert F. Sibert Award for nonfiction and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. He has won the LMP award for editing and has a PhD in American history from New York University. Marc is a member of the full-time faculty in the graduate program of the Rutgers School of Communication and Information. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with his wife, Marina Budhos, and sons. You can visit him online at MarcAronson.com.
* “Despite the concise narration, the gravity of the rescue is
never dampened. Aronson is mindful in his descriptions of
differences in cultures and takes care not to filter them through
Western assumptions. He also includes a chapter openly describing
gaps in his research and account due to key players' personal or
political biases. . . . Solid writing preserves the natural rising
suspense and astonishing details of this rescue.”
*Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review*
“Told in a breakneck chronological sequence, those familiar with
the outcome of the story are still left breathless by the pace of
the storytelling. . . . With respect paid to all countries that
sent individuals to help problem-solve for the crisis, this will be
a useful text in the classroom and a heart-pounding narrative
nonfiction title for individual readers. Highly recommended.”
*School Library Connection*
“Aronson makes the event feel new through his deeply detailed
research and his ability to share pertinent information that news
organizations may have ignored. . . . A thorough, engaging, and
inspiring book.”
*School Library Journal*
“Aronson takes readers beyond the headlines and into the action of
this harrowing event. . . . The text quickly gains momentum as
Aronson recounts some of the suspenseful life-or-death moments as
divers brought each boy out one by one.”
*Booklist*
“Aronson makes each nail-biting day feel immediate. . . . There’s
more going on here than heroic rescue, though; there’s also serious
attention paid to the “stateless” status of some of the boys, to
Thai attitudes toward government, religion, and privacy that
influenced subsequent media coverage, to comparison of the
international response to the boys’ rescue and of the deadly,
nearly concurrent failure of a Laotian dam not far away.”
*BCCB*
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