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Presents the fictional diary of Dorothy Wilson, a twelve-year-old girl from Halifax, Nova Scotia, in which she tries to work out her feelings and fears after surviving the "Titanic" disaster and being expelled from school for slapping an insensitive classmate.Tags
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I like books told in diary form (though I didn't care as much for the parts written as a play). Titanic and the sinking don't really come into the story until about halfway, but there is a treat for E. Nesbit fans.
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29+ Works 1,640 Members
Sarah Ellis is an acclaimed children's writer, librarian, speaker and journalist whose books for young readers have won every major children's award in Canada. She has Masters' degrees in library science and children's literature and has taught children's literature at universities across Canada, and in the United States, Europe and Japan. Sarah show more lives in Vancouver, British Columbia show less
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- That Fatal Night: The Titanic Diary of Dorothy Wilton
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
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