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"Delving deep into Titanic?s legacy, Allen Gibson presents a comprehensive history with a refreshing argument, that Titanic represented a considerable achievement in maritime architecture. He determines the true causes of the disaster, telling the story of the "unsinkable" ship against a backdrop of a tumultuous and rapidly emerging technological world. The book exposes the true interests of the people involved in the operation, regulation, and investigation...
2) Iceberg
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery--until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.
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English
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"Engineers of Victory" is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War, the focus being on the problem-solvers: Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the "funny tanks" which flattened the curve on the D-Day beaches; Flight Lieutenant Ronnie Harker "the man who put the Merlin in the Mustang"; and Captain "Johnny" Walker, the convoy captain who worked out how to sink U-boats with a "creeping barrage."...
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English
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"Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vastness. But once the first daring mariners successfully navigated to far shores, whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, the Chinese, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south, the Atlantic evolved in the world's growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas to the West, and by...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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"For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later. At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, the largest passenger steamship of this time, met its catastrophic end after crashing into an iceberg. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew onboard, only...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Deep in the dark North Atlantic night, the majestic ocean liner Titanic strikes ice and quickly begins to sink. It radios out an 'S-O-S' distress call into the night. But all the ships who receive the call are too far away to help. All apart from the humble Carpathia. But surely it is too small to help, and how will it navigate the perilous ice fields? Follow the brave crews of both ships and find out what happened on this fateful night. It's all...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides a brief overview of the sinking of the RMS "Titanic," in 1912, describing the ship's collision with an iceberg, the safety precautions the ship had for passengers in the event of an emergency, and the rescue efforts to save the surviving passengers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits, photographs ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture history of the shipwreck that shocked the world"--Cover.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While many accounts of the Titanic's voyage focus on the technical or mechanical aspects of why the ship sank, Davenport-Hines follows the stories of the men, women, and children whose lives intersected on the vessel's fateful last day.
12) The Titanic
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A nonfiction book about the hidden truth behind the sinking of the Titanic with sidebars, illustrations, photos, and graphic panels"--
Author
Publisher
Da Capo
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
143 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Filled with powerful illustrations from Titanic director James Cameron's historic 2001 journey inside the infamous wreck, this fascinating tour of the ship takes readers deep inside the hull for an unprecedented look around.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A remarkable true WWII account of the maritime attack on the RMS Laconia off the West African coast"--
"On September 12, 1942, the RMS Laconia was attacked by a German submarine five hundred miles off the coast of western Africa. What the Germans didn't know was that they had just attacked their allies: locked below decks on the British ship were nearly 1,800 Italian prisoners of war. When the Germans realized their mistake, they made the unprecedented...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 423 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A product of Anglo-American capitalism, built by a generation that had never known trauma and was bored by its own prosperity and success, the Titanic set sail into a world that was about to change forever. Modernity was shaking the class system, the Industrial Revolution was creating new kinds of wealth, and revolutionary fervor would lead to The Great War. Exploring the infamous disaster from the perspectives of six of her first-class passengers--a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
78 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What do you know about the sinking of the Titanic? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived... series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is the perfect partner for the classroom and for history-loving...
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