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What Was the Titanic?

by Stephanie Sabol

The Titanic’s sinking and discovery

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AlbakiReads Editorial

The Titanic’s sinking and discovery

Stephanie Sabol’s account introduces the Titanic through two linked questions: how the ship sank in 1912 and how its wreck was found 75 years later. The book places the disaster in its historical context, noting the ship’s reputation as “unsinkable” and the scale of the loss of life. Its focus on both the sinking and the later discovery gives young readers a concise route into the ship’s history and the questions that continue to surround it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young readers ages 9–12 interested in the Titanic and maritime history.
  • Children seeking nonfiction about notable disasters and historical discoveries.

Themes

TitanicMaritime historyShipwrecks and discoveryHistorical disaster

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Book overview

For more than one hundred 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 705 survived. More than one hundred years later, today's readers will be intrigued by the mystery that surrounds this ship that was originally labeled "unsinkable."

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