Maiden Voyage: A Titanic Story by Sarah Jane.

Maiden Voyage: A Titanic Story by Sarah Jane. Review of Advanced Reader Copy. Forthcoming from Scholastic, 2018. Historical fiction/Middle grade fiction.

Three young women find themselves on RMS Titanic's maiden voyage, but their situations are very different. Isabella James is rushed out of the only home she has known by people she has known as her parents with only a packed case, a letter, and instructions to read the letter only when the great ship docks. Of course, she is distraught and reads the letter. She learns that her real parents are on the ship. Lucy is on the ship with her beloved, but ill, mother and her difficult and untrustworthy father. They sail with their servant Abigail who has recently lost her own mother and assumed her mother's job with the family. All three girls have their own secrets, not the least of which is Abigail's little brother who she has sneaked onboard!

Readers familiar with the White Star line and the historical events surrounding the disaster of April, 1912 will enjoy this well written novel. In different classes, the sights and sounds, foods and rooms are as different as the brave and determined young women.  Some of the characters they meet are actual people, others are imagined characters who move the story along to its dramatic conclusion.