shipwrecks - fiction

In 1679, Pachelot, a very brave dog who serves as French explorer LaSalle's "right paw," catches a thief, makes friends with two young Indians, and sees what causes the disappearance of the Griffon, a ship LaSalle's crew built to explore the Great Lakes.

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