Fourteen-year-old Cassie, feeling like an outsider while on a cruise to Martinique with her father and her new stepfamily, becomes involved in helping Charles, a cute boy her own age, solve a mystery that has been haunting his family for years.
An introduction to cruise ships, discussing what they are, how they are built, and how they run, and providing information about crew members and the activities available to passengers.
Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat after a mysterious explosion on their trans-Atlantic ocean liner, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's.
In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert considers his younger sister a pest, but things change when they travel with their mother and uncle aboard the Titanic and are caught up in its tragic sinking.
Photographs, diagrams, and text describe thirteen cruise ships from around the world, including the luxurious RMS "Mauretania," and the medical vessel "Anastasis.".
During the final hours aboard the Titanic on her ill-fated voyage in 1912, Gavin and Karolina attempt to help others and by so doing learn something about themselves.
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 RMS "Titanic," and experiences its sinking.
