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Hopkinson, Deborah.

Titanic : voices from the disaster / by Deborah Hopkinson.

1st ed.

New York : Scholastic Press, ©2012.

289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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.

1040 Lexile.

Titanic (Steamship) -- Juvenile literature.

Shipwrecks -- North Atlantic Ocean -- Juvenile literature.

Shipwreck survival -- Juvenile literature.

Icebergs -- Juvenile literature.

Disasters -- Juvenile literature.

Scholastic Press, publisher.

"Book design by Phil Falco"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-260) and index.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 7.0 149381.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 8.3 10 Quiz: 56098.

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Book, 2013.

YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist, 2013

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.

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