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Titanic voices from the disaster book5/20/2023 "Deborah Hopkinson is a great nonfiction writer for youth. Their recollections are filled with heart-stopping action, devastating drama, and fascinating historical details. There’s nine-year-old Frankie Goldsmith Violet Jessop, a young stewardess Jack Thayer, an American high school senior Colonel Archibald Gracie, a well-to-do gentleman William Murdoch, a brave seaman Charlotte Collyer, a young mother on her way to start a new life and many others. Critically acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson weaves together the voices of Titanic survivors and witnesses to the disaster to bring the horrors of that terrible night to life. Even now, a century later, the events surrounding the Titanic continue to haunt and intrigue us. Thus the ship declared to be unsinkable was lost in one of the most infamous tragedies in history. EARLY MORNING ON APRIL 15, 1912, the RMS Titanic, on her glorious maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, sank after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic.
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