The warning is in the newspaper: Germany will sink any ship entering British waters. Two thousand people read it and board the Lusitania anyway. Seventeen-year-old Leo Masterson is one of them. The Lusitania is the fastest ship afloat and should be safe from the German threat... but everything they think they know works against them.

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At 12:30 AM, fifteen-year-old Henry Cromwell heard something on his homemade radio that no one was supposed to hear. Now the Carpathia is running full speed into an ice field in the dead of night, no moon, no caution, every crew member wide awake. The Titanic is sinking. They think they can make it in time to rescue everyone... if the same ice that took Titanic doesn't take her rescuer.

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Alaska, 1918. The Princess Sophia is stranded after hitting a hidden reef in a raging blizzard. A rescue fleet arrives, but one can get close. The waves are too violent, the wind too fierce, any lifeboat would be smashed by the waves and the rock. Experienced captains choose to wait. Fourteen-year-old Isaac Brewster can't be patient. The storm is only getting worse.

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David on the stern of the Queen Mary 2, on the trans-Atlantic voyage he wanted to take for over 20 years.

David Dubczak is an author, playwright, and teacher from Des Moines, Iowa. He is a true lover of ships, ocean travel, and maritime history. He was the third grader who loved the Titanic and never grew out of it. His shelves at home are lined with model ships he built himself. 

 

As a teacher, he saw his students enjoying survival books, such as the I Survived... series. As a maritime history enthusiast, he wrote his first book to appeal to the same interest and teach his students about the RMS Lusitania sinking: Torpedoed! Surviving the Lusitania.

 

They loved it so much he continued on with DASH, embracing the dots and dashes of Morse Code to tell the story of the RMS Carpathia's heroic dash to rescue Titanic's passengers. 

 

Finally, Against the Gale tells the story of the little-known but equally tragic "Titanic of the Pacific," the SS Princess Sopia, which he learned about while visiting Skagway, Alaska.

 

When you buy these books, you know you're getting them from an author who truly loves these stories, and wants the reader to enjoy the adventure, too.