Titanic : voices from the disaster Print
Deborah Hopkinson
- 1st ed.
- New York : Scholastic Press, c2012.
- 289 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Hardback book
"Book design by Phil Falco"--t.p. verso.; NM Battle of the Books 2013 - Middle School Reading List.
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.
Tells the tale of the sinking of the Titanic using the narratives of the witnesses and survivors to the disaster.