Titanic : voices from the disaster
(2012)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
Y/910.916/HOPKINSON,D

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Nonfiction Y/910.916/HOPKINSON,D Available
Kids' Nonfiction Y/910.916/HOPKINSON,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Scholastic Press, [2012]
©2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780545116749 (hbk.), 0545116740 (hbk.), 9780545436779 (pbk.), 054543677X (pbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Winner of the 2013 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book Award

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 -- Titanic: the lifeboat launching sequence reexamined -- Titanic statistics: who lived and who died

Tells the tale of the sinking of the Titanic using the narratives of the witnesses and survivors to the disaster

1040L