# The lifeguard

**Author(s):** Richie Tankersley Cusick
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-lifeguard/verdict.json
**Genres:** thriller, young-adult, literary-fiction, childrens
**Pages:** 213
**Publisher:** Hippo Books, Scholastic Publications
**Published:** Tue Jan 01 1991 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780590765244
**ISBN-10:** 0590765248
**ASIN:** B00HZ9Q92C
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror
**Amazon binding:** + $3.99 shipping
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-lifeguard

## SageChimp reader verdict

The lifeguard has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

- **Status:** Not enough unpaid reviews (`insufficient_data`)
- **Paid-hype signal:** Cannot judge paid hype from this sample (`insufficient_data`)
- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 3.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/the-lifeguard/verdict.json

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## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★ (Untitled) — kristin