historical fiction series, which will include the simultaneously published Escape from. Wide-spaced lines of type and a sprinkling of full-page black-and-white illustrations give the book an appealing look. One "Reality Check" box evaluates a cook's tale about a ship's cat, Jenny, taking her kittens off the Titanic and a superstitious crew member trusting Jenny's instincts and leaving, too. Many details within the informative, exciting narrative are based in history, and sidebars filling in the facts will bolster the story's believability for young readers. On the night of Patrick's and Sarah's shared birthday, when disaster strikes and the ship sinks, they do what they can to survive until rescued. Along the way, Sarah overcomes her former prejudice against the Irish. Over several days, he takes her around the ship, introducing her to crew members and his cousins. Patrick, a 13-year-old Irish crew member who delivers messages throughout the Titanic, befriends Sarah, a 10-year-old American girl who boards the ocean liner for its maiden voyage. Can Sarah find her new friends in time? Can Patrick do his duty and also save himself? Will either of them manage to escape one of the deadliest shipwrecks in history? About The Author The Titanic is going down fast-into the deep, icy Atlantic. disaster! The ship crashes into an iceberg, and water begins rushing into the lower decks. He shows her all the secrets that the greatest ship in the world has to offer, like heated swimming pools and first-class cabins.īut then.
Instead of dining with movie stars, she finds herself having more fun in steerage with the family of her new friend, Patrick, a bellboy. The unsinkable Titanic is not quite what Sarah expected. Neither of them knows that they are about to embark on the most dangerous trip of their lives. Sarah is a passenger excited to return to America.
Patrick is an Irish bellboy working on the Titanic to help his family back home. Patrick Kelley, an Irish bellboy set to turn 14 on the ship, and Sarah Walsh, a young white passenger headed back to her family in Boston, are thrown together in an unlikely match, with little in common except their Irish backgrounds." School Library Journal "With a prologue that spells out the issues on the Titanic, this book foreshadows disaster. "Many details within the informative, exciting narrative are based in history, and sidebars filling in the facts will bolster the story's believability for young readers.A good beginning for the Escape From.
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