Escape from . . . the Titanic by Mary Kay Carson

Escape from . . . the Titanic by Mary Kay Carson

"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 . . . historical fiction series." Booklist

"With a prologue that spells out the issues on the Titanic, this book foreshadows disaster. 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

Patrick is an Irish bellboy working on the Titanic to help his family back home. Sarah is a passenger excited to return to America. Neither of them knows that they are about to embark on the most dangerous trip of their lives.


The unsinkable Titanic is not quite what Sarah expected. Instead of dining with movie stars, she finds herself having more fun in steerage with the family of her new friend, Patrick, a bellboy. He shows her all the secrets that the greatest ship in the world has to offer, like heated swimming pools and first-class cabins.
But then . . . disaster! The ship crashes into an iceberg, and water begins rushing into the lower decks. The Titanic is going down fast-into the deep, icy Atlantic. 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?

Mary Kay Carson has written over fifty books for children and teenagers about wildlife, space, weather, ecology, and history. She began her writing career working for the school magazine SuperScience after studying biology in college and serving in the Peace Corps. Her books have received a slew of starred reviews and accolades, including the 2019 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Award for Excellence in Science Books, which she won for Alexander Graham Bell for Kids. She's written six books in HMH's popular Scientists in the Field series, including The Bat Scientists, which was named an ALA 2011 Outstanding Children's Books for Middle Readers, and The Tornado Scientist, which was selected as a State Library of Ohio Choose To Read Ohio (CTRO) title for 2021-22. She and her husband reside near a century-old house in Cincinnati, Ohio, surrounded by urban greenspace, deer, raptors, woodchucks, and songbirds. www.marykaycarson.com is a website dedicated to Mary Kay Carson.

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ISBN 13	9781499811063
ISBN 10	1499811063
Title	Escape from . . . the Titanic
Author	Mary Kay Carson
Series	Escape From
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little Bee Books Inc.
Year published	2021-03-02
Number of pages	144
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.