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Hopkinson, Deborah.
Titanic :
voices from the disaster /
by Deborah Hopkinson.
1st edition.
New York :
Scholastic Press,
2012.
©2012.
289 pages :
illustrations ;
22 cm.
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"Book design by Phil Falco"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-260) and index.
Diagram of the ship -- Setting sail -- A floating palace -- A peaceful Sunday -- "Iceberg right ahead." -- Impact! -- In the radio room: "It's a CQD OM." -- A light in the distance -- Women and children first -- The last boats -- In the water -- "She's gone." -- A long, cold night -- Rescue at dawn -- Aftermath: the end of all hope -- Discovering the Titanic -- Glossary -- People in this book -- Other famous Titanic figures -- Survivor letters from the Carpathia -- Titanic timeline -- Be a Titanic researcher: find out more -- Titanic facts and figures -- From the British wreck commissioner's final report, 1912 -- Titanic: the lifeboat launching sequence reexamined -- Titanic statistics: who lived and who died.
On April 15, 1912, the magnificent ocean liner the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank beneath the icy North Atlantic seas. Hopkinson weaves together archival photographs and the voices of real Titanic survivors and witnesses to the disaster to bring the horrors of that terrible night to life. There's nine-year-old Frankie Goldsmith; Violet Jessop, a young stewardess; Archibald Gracie, a well-to-do gentleman; Charlotte Collyer, a young mother on her way to start a new life; and others.
Accelerated Reader AR
MG
7.4
7.0
149381.
Reading Counts RC
6-8
8.3
10
Quiz: 56098.
20180810.
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Book, 2013.
Titanic (Steamship)
Juvenile literature.
Shipwrecks
North Atlantic Ocean
Juvenile literature.
Shipwreck survival
Juvenile literature.
Icebergs
Juvenile literature.
Disasters
Juvenile literature.
Young adult nonfiction.
Scholastic Press.