Families Around the World

by Jenny Vaughan

Late in the night of April 14, 1912, the mighty Titanic, a passenger liner traveling from Southampton, England, to New York City, struck an iceberg four hundred miles south of Newfoundland. Its sinking over the next two and a half hours brought the shipmythological in name and sizeone hundred years of infamy. Of the 2,240 people aboard the ship, 1,517 perished either by drowning or by freezing to death in the frigid North Atlantic waters. What followed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0808610678
• ISBN13: 9780808610670
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Schoolhouse Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7