So many people from the stewards to the passengers are heroes in this tragedy. Think of it as one collective voice that moves the storyline forward. You don't really need to keep track of everyone. Don't let this trip you into not reading it. I'm never going to be able to keep track of all these people. When I first started this book I thought.

Their voices are powerful and dramatic in this description of the lucky few who survived this disaster. Yet unbelievably, many survivors of the Titanic did just that in this page-turning nonfiction account of the sinking of the Titanic. That is why I cannot imagine being submerged in 28 degree water for HOURS and surviving with no limbs amputated from exposure. The water temperature was in the 50's and my teeth were chattering and blue within a short amount of time. Imagine a big block of ice being dropped onto your chest. Whooee, I was so unprepared for air whooshing out of my lungs when I hit the water. But I found out I didn't when I decided to jump off a sailboat into Lake Superior. (Oct.I grew up in the Land of 10,000 Frozen Lakes. Snow and Eel’s deadline looms, and Eel’s past closes in on him, readers will feel the same sense of urgency-and excitement-as the characters themselves. Hopkinson (Titanic: Voices from the Disaster) adeptly recreates the crowded, infested streets of London, but it’s her distinct, layered characters and turbulent, yet believable plot that make this a captivating read.

Snow, have a different theory-that it’s being spread through a local water pump-which they set out to prove before the death toll escalates further.

When the first cholera case hits, the town blames the polluted air, but Eel and his mentor, Dr. Eel, a hardworking and bighearted kid with no shortage of crummy luck, is being hunted by a notoriously mean crook, who happens to be his stepfather. Set amid the 1854 London cholera outbreak, Hopkinson’s attention-grabbing story of Eel, an orphan who survives by combing the filthy banks of the Thames for anything he might sell, is a delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure.

The Great Trouble by Deborah Hopkinson