Based on the True Story of Twelve-Year-Old Titanic Survivor, Ruth Becker

“Sometimes we have to go a long way to find out who we are.”

The year is 1912. When doctors in India are unable to treat her baby brother’s illness, Ruth’s missionary parents decide there is one solution: move her mother and the children across the world—to Michigan.

But India is the only home Ruth knows. In a matter of days, she must leave Papa and all she loves behind, abandon her dream of one day playing violin in the Calcutta Orchestra, and embark on a rollicking, four-week journey across the Arabian and Mediterranean Seas, followed by the voyage to New York aboard the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.

Ruth’s story is one of courage and self-sacrifice as she earns her sea legs and faces the unknown, culminating in a desperate, tragic night she will never forget.

This was a fun, interesting look at the life of one of the Titanic’s survivors. Part fact, part fiction, the POV of young Ruth provided a new look at the trip.

I expected the book to focus more on the Titanic and the voyage, but the majority of the book is actually about Ruth’s entire voyage from India to Michigan, of which her time on the Titanic was quite short. The book really isn’t about the Titanic — it’s about Ruth and how her life changes and she grows during this time.

Overall, it was an engaging and interesting read. I’m not the target audience, but I still loved reading what life was like and how this experience could have gone for the young voyager. I will definitely recommend this book to my friends with kids.

Rated G. Get your copy here!

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