"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?