The year is 1907, and you are the manager of a prestigious shipping company. You decide to plan and build the largest and most luxurious streamliner in the world to cross the Atlantic Ocean: the Titanic. Little do you know that the ship is sailing straight towards disaster!

This perfect curriculum companion steers readers through the Titanic's history and its doomed maiden voyage, covering everything from its construction to destruction. The ever-popular You Wouldn't Want to Be series transports readers to the grisliest times and places in history, perfect for reluctant readers.

The first-person narrative approach puts children in the shoes of some of the most unfortunate people ever to have lived.