Virtual Author Series Presented in partnership by the St. Louis County Library Summer Reading Club and HEC Media
Watch our virtual author event with Christina Soontornvat
Author of “All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team”
2021 Newbery Honor Book
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. Before long, news of the missing team spreads, launching a seventeen-day rescue operation involving thousands of rescuers from around the globe. Combining first hand interviews of rescue workers with in-depth science and details of the region's culture and religion, author Christina Soontornvat 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.
The interview will be available starting at 2:00 p.m., July 16 through this link: www.facebook.com/STLCoLibrary and on the Higher Education Channel at Spectrum 989 and AT&T U-verse 99. It will then be archived for later view at www.hecmedia.org.
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This project is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the Missouri State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.