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Big water / Andrea Curtis.

by Curtis, Andrea.

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Orca Book Publishers, 2018.

Asia (Steamship) -- Fiction.

Steamship passengers -- Fiction.

Shipwrecks -- Fiction.

Survival -- Fiction.

9781459815711 (pbk.)

181 p. ; 21 cm.

"First published in the United States, 2018" -- T.p verso.

" Seventeen-year-old Christina McBurney has led a sheltered life. But when her twin brother, Jonathan, dies of consumption, Christina, unwilling to be farmed out as a nursemaid or teacher, runs away from home and her destiny. In Owen Sound she boards the Asia, a steamship that transports passengers and freight throughout the Great Lakes. She doesn't really have a plan other than to get to Sault Ste. Marie. She'll figure things out once she's settled. But a violent storm suddenly rises on Georgian Bay, and the overloaded and top-heavy steamship begins to sink. Christina is tossed overboard. Pulled to safety just before she loses consciousness, she finds herself on a lifeboat, surrounded by a number of bedraggled and terrified passengers and crew. One by one they succumb to their injuries, until only Christina and a brooding young man named Daniel are left alive. The usual rules of society no longer apply—Daniel and Christina must now work together as equals to survive. Big Water is a fictional account of the real-life story of the only two survivors of the sinking of the SS Asia in 1882. Show Less "--From publisher.

Ages: 11-16. Kirkus Reviews.

Historical fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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