¿Que fue el Titanic? (What Was the Titanic? Spanish Edition)

Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7

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."

Series Overview: A natural expansion of the exceptional Who Was? series, What Was? focuses on compelling historical events, great battles, protests, and discoveries.

About the Author

Stephanie Sabol is a native of the Jersey Shore and a graduate of Boston College, and currently resides in Hoboken, New Jersey. She is the author of What Was the Titanic?, Who Is Bruce Springsteen?, and Where Is Our Solar System?