I Was There: On Board the Titanic
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I Was There: On Board the Titanic by Shelley Tanaka
Travel back in time to the fateful maiden voyage of the majestic Titanic in this compelling narrative. Told through the eyes of two young survivors, seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer and twenty-two-year-old Harold Bride, this thrilling account vividly recreates the night the world's most famous passenger ship sank to the bottom of the icy Atlantic.
Shelley Tanaka is an award-winning author, translator and editor. She has written more than twenty books for children and young adults, winning the Orbis Pictus Award, the Mr. Christie's Book Award, the Science in Society Book Award and the Information Book Award, and she has twice been nominated for the Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis. Other honors include Texas Blue Bonnet runner-up, School Library Journal Best Books, ALA Notables and IRA Young Adults' Choice. Her translation of Michel Noel's Good for Nothing won the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and was on the IBBY Honor List (Commended). Tanaka teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts, in the MFA Program in Writing for Children and Young Adults. She lives in Kingston, Ontario.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780786813186 |
| ISBN 10 | 0786813180 |
| Title | I Was There: On Board the Titanic |
| Author | Shelley Tanaka |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
| Year published | 1998-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Prizes | Winner of West Virginia Children's Book Award 1999 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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