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Titanic: voices from the disaster
By: Deborah Hopkinson
New York: Scholastic Press, 2012. Informational.
Tells the tale of the sinking of the Titanic using the narratives of the witnesses and survivors to the disaster.

Titanic's tragic journey
By: Thomas Troupe
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint, 2018. Informational.
Presents the last hours of the Titanic, which sank after colliding with an iceberg in the spring of 1912.

The Titanic's crew: working aboard the great ship
By: Terri Dougherty
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint, 2015. Informational.
Describes the experiences of the crew of the Titanic, including daily responsibilities as well as how they handled the sinking of the ship.

Titanic: young survivors
By: Allan Zullo
New York, NY: Scholastic Inc., 2016. Informational.
Documents the stories of ten real-life survivors of the Titanic disaster, including seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer and eleven-year-old Billy Carter.

The search for the Titanic: finding the ship's watery grave
By: Terri Dougherty
Capstone Press, A Capstone imprint, 2015. informational.
Describes the discovery of the ship Titanic, including the people and equipment involved in the discovery as well as the artifacts recovered.

Titanic
By: Emma Berne
New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2018. Informational.
The Titanic includes enough real stories of the tragic "unsinkable ship" and its passengers and crew to fill an ocean liner. Throughout, BeForever character Samantha Parkington shares snippets of her own exciting fictional story of traveling as a first class passenger in the early 1900's, when steamship was the only way to travel across the ocean.

The Titanic disaster
By: Adam Stone
Bellwether Media, Inc., 2015. Informational
The biggest ship in the world! -- Cruising toward disaster -- Doomed -- The unsinkable sinks. Exciting illustrations follow the events of the Titanic disaster. The combination of brightly colored panels and leveled text is intended for students in grades 3-7.

The Titanic locket
By: Suzanne Weyn
New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., 2013. Informational.
It looks like the high point of Samantha's spring vacation is going to be a glimpse of a cute boy she sees at The Haunted Museum in England. She and her sister, Jessica, and their parents are taking a cruise on the Titanic 2, a replica of the original Titanic, and there's not even wifi! At least the Titanic exhibit at the haunted Museum had wax figures and beautiful jewels to look at. But from their first day, Samantha and Jessica notice strange things happening. Their cabin number keeps changing. There are creepy scratching sounds coming from between the walls. And a locket that Jess opened at the museum seems to be ...... following them. Is the locket haunted? or could it be the ship itself? 

Titanic: April 1912
By: Kathleen Duey
New York : Aladdin, 2014. Informational.
Gavin Reilly is working in the Titanic's galley to earn his passage from Ireland to America. He knows when he finally joins his brother in New York they'll live their big dreams together. Karolina Green is devastated after the loss of her parents. She's returning home to the United States from England with her Aunt Rose, and desperately dreams of fixing her shattered life in New York. But on a clam, clear night in April, those dreams turn into a nightmare. Rich and poor, famous and unknown, the hundreds of people aboard the Titanic find themselves at the mercy of the cold sea and the sinking ship. Few will live to remember the disaster the world still can't forget.




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