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Voyage on the Great Titanic

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by Ellen Emerson White


  Acknowledgments

  Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to use the following:

  Cover portrait by Tim O’Brien.

  Cover background: Titanic. © Popperfoto/Getty Images.

  White Star Line advertisement, Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

  Northam Street Scene, Southampton, England, Southampton Maritime Museum.

  Titanic at Southampton, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia.

  Near miss with the New York, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia.

  Captain Edward J. Smith, Popperfoto/Getty Images.

  Passengers strolling on deck, Cork Examiner, Ireland.

  The Grand Staircase, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia.

  First-class dining room, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia.

  Luncheon menu, Southampton Maritime Museum.

  First-class bedroom, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia.

  First-class reading and writing room, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia.

  Gymnasium photo, L’Illustration, from Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy © 1994 by John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas, published by W.W. Norton, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the authors.

  Mail room workers, from Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy © 1994 by John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas, published by W.W. Norton, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the authors.

  Wireless room, Express Newspapers, Photo by Father Browne/Universal Images Group/Getty Images.

  Telegram from the Amerika, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

  Lifeboat painting, Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

  Iceberg, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia.

  Titanic sinking, © Ullstein-Willy Stoewer/The Image Works.

  Survivors in lifeboat, Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia.

  Survivors on board the Carpathia, North Wind Picture Archives, Alfred, Maine.

  Third-class passenger survivors, New York Evening Journal, from Titanic: Triumph and Tragedy © 1994 by John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas, published by W.W. Norton, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the authors.

  Newspaper boy, Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.

  Lifeboat diagram, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

  Diagram of nearby ships, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

  Map of voyage by Heather Saunders.

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  The Fences Between Us

  The Diary of Piper Davis

  by Kirby Larson

  A Journey to the New World

  The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple

  by Kathryn Lasky

  Copyright

  While the events described and some of the characters in this book may be based on actual historical events and real people, Margaret Ann Brady is a fictional character, created by the author, and her diary and its epilogue are works of fiction.

  Copyright © 1998 by Ellen Emerson White

  Cover design by Elizabeth B. Parisi

  Cover portrait by Tim O’Brien, © 2010 Scholastic Inc.

  Cover background © Popperfoto/Getty Images

  All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Inc., Publishers since 1920. SCHOLASTIC, DEAR AMERICA, and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc.

  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission of the publisher. For information regarding permission, write to Scholastic Inc., Attention: Permissions Department, 557 Broadway, New York, NY 10012.

  The Library of Congress has catalogued the earlier hardcover edition as follows:

  White, Ellen Emerson.

  Voyage on the great Titanic : the diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912 / Ellen Emerson White.

  p. cm. — (Dear America)

  Summary: In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.

  ISBN 0-590-96273-6

  1. Titanic (Steamship)—Juvenile fiction. [1. Titanic (Steamship)—Fiction. 2. Shipwrecks—Fiction. 3. Ocean liners—Fiction. 4. Orphans—Fiction. 5. London (England)—Fiction. 6. Diaries—Fiction.] I. Title. II. Series.

  PZ7.W58274Vo 1998

  [Fic]—dc21 98-27501 CIP AC

  This edition first printing, November 2010

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  e-ISBN: 978-0-545-41501-9

 

 

 


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