Samuel Scott died while building the Titanic. As the ship sails to her doom, his ghost moves restlessly alongside the passengers and crew who each portray their own story. Frederick Fleet is the young look-out who spots the iceberg; Howard is the heroic band-leader who plays ragtime music as the freezing waters lap his feet; Harold Bride is the junior radio operator whose messages echo on, long after ship has disappeared to its icy grave... This Rollercoasters school edition of this historical novel is published in a durable flexi-cover format, proven to last longer in the classroom.

 

This book features in the following series: Rollercoasters, Rollercoasters Series .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Oxford University Press .

Tallaght-born Nicola Pierce is a writer, living in Drogheda. Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children's Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O'Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald. She lives in a thatched house in Co. Wexford.