Book
Titanic : voices from the disaster
Record details
- ISBN: 054543677X (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780545436779 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0545116740 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780545116749 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0545116759 (pbk. ; Scholastic Press)
- ISBN: 9780545116756 (pbk. ; Scholastic Press)
- ISBN: 0545116740
- ISBN: 9780545116749
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Physical Description:
289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, ©2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Book design by Phil Falco"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-260) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1040 Lexile. |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 7.0 149381. Reading Counts RC 6-8 8.3 10 Quiz: 56098. |
| Awards Note: | Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Book, 2013. |
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Available copies
- 39 of 41 copies available at Bibliomation.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rockville Public Library. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Rockville Public Library | J910.916 HOP (Text) | 34035125442232 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | J 910.91 H (Text) | 34030121453317 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | TEEN 910.9163 HOPKINSON (Text) | 34030127932926 | Teen Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | j910.916 HOPKINSON (Text) | 34000080485816 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bolton High School | 910.9 HOP (Text) | 34062127328433 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | JNF 910.916 HOP (Text) | 33260000117334 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | J 910.9163 HOPKINSON (Text) | 34029124418137 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | J 910.916 HOP (Text) | 34014127947787 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Canterbury Public Library | J 910.916 HOPKINSON (Text) | 33190000319459 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | j910.91Hop (Text) | 33180123707128 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
