• Age: 11 to 18
• Grade: 6 to 12

À quatorze ans, Jamie Laidlaw revient au Canada. Il quitte l'Angleterre sur le Titanic qui fait son voyage inaugural. Mais le navire heurte un iceberg et sombre, emportant avec lui 1 500 personnes.

La nuit du naufrage, Jamie réussit à atteindre un canot retourné et grimpe dessus. Des cris affolés déchirent la nuit avant de s'éteindre peu à peu... Jamie doit lutter toute la nuit dans le froid glacial pour garder son équilibre sur le canot retourné qui risque à tout moment de couler. Une fois à bord du navire de secours le Carpathia, Jamie doit accepter le fait que son père s'est noyé.

Parmi les 2 200 passagers du Titanic, environ le tiers a survécu. À New York, les rescapés sont abasourdis de voir les milliers de personnes qui attendent l'arrivée du Carpathia : c'est l'histoire du siècle. Quelques semaines plus tard, Jamie apprend que le corps de son père a été retrouvé et qu'il a été envoyé à Halifax. Il entreprend alors de s'y rendre avec son frère.

Fourteen-year-old Jamie Laidlaw is returning to Canada from England on the Titanic's maiden voyage, when the ship strikes an iceberg and sinks, with a loss of 1500 lives.

Fortunately, Jamie survives and manages to scramble aboard an overturned lifeboat. Frantic cries fill the night, lessening more and more as people in the water freeze and die, leaving an unearthly silence.

Of the 2200 people on the Titanic, only 705 survived. In New York, the survivors are astounded to see ten thousand people awaiting the rescue ship Carpathia's arrival - it is the news story of the century. Weeks later Jamie learns that his father's body was recovered, and is being returned to Halifax. He begins the journey there, with his brother, to bring his father's body home for burial.

Original title: I Am Canada: Deadly Voyage

HUGH BREWSTER has twenty-five years of experience creating books about the Titanic as an editor, publisher and writer. He worked with Robert D. Ballard to produce the 1987 international bestseller The Discovery of the Titanic and oversaw the creation of Titanic: An Illustrated History, a book that provided inspiration for James Cameron’s epic movie. Brewster is also the author of Inside the Titanic, 882 1/2 Amazing Answers to Your Questions about the Titanic and Deadly Voyage, and has written twelve award-winning books for young readers, including Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, a 2007 Governor General’s Award nominee. He lives in Toronto. Visit him online at www.hughbrewster.com or follow him on Twitter @hughbrewster.

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