Awards

• Commended for Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) (Nonfiction) 2012
• Short-listed for Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award 2014
• Short-listed for Young Hoosier Book Award (Middle Grades) 2014

Overview

On December 6, 1917 two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating enough, a blizzard hit the next day, dumping more than a foot of snow on the area and paralyzing much-needed relief efforts. Fascinating, edge-of-your-seat storytelling based on original source material conveys this harrowing account of tragedy and recovery. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.

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Halifax does indeed have a story to tell, but Walker once again proves that it's her consummate gifts as a storyteller that breathe life into the tale. -- Horn Book Magazine This tragic, but well-told story belongs in most collections. -- School Library Journal <p> Riveting. - Kirkus Reviews, Starred

<p> Riveting. - Kirkus Reviews

Author Information

Sally Walker is the author of Written in Bone, Fossil Fish Found Alive, and Secrets of a Civil War Submarine, which was awarded a Sibert Medal. She lives in Illinois.

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