Thai cave rescue to be told in kids' book for middle-schoolers

The dramatic Thai cave rescue of 12 boys and their coach will be told in a middle-grade nonfiction book.

The story of the soccer team's entrapment and subsequent rescue – complete with happy ending – riveted the world.

“Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue,” a nonfiction account, will be published on March 19, 2019 by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, a division of Simon & Schuster.

Author Marc Aronson would seem well-equipped to tell the story. He’s also the author of the 2011 nonfiction middle-grade book "Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert."

Atheneum said “Rising Water” will tell the back story behind the complex, dangerous rescue operation by a team of international divers. (One Thai Navy Seal diver died during the operation.)

The boys, ages 11-17, became trapped without food by rising flood waters after entering the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand on June 23. They were found nine days later by divers, but it took another week to devise a plan to extricate the boys and their 25-year-old assistant coach.

The boys left a Thai hospital this week in good health and gave a press conference in which they described their discovery and rescue as “magical.” At the press event, Thai officials asked that the boys and their families be given privacy by the media in the future .

WFTV