What Was the Titanic?

By: Stephanie Sabol, Who HQ

Narrated by: Eric Sharp

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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The tintaic and everybody on it.

I love everything about it. The ice berg part was amazing and how if the tintaic did somthing different. MY FAVORITE CHAPTER IS WHAT IF?

Great read for 10 year old

My 10 year old read this book for her book report. I learned a few things myself.