Big water, Andrea Curtis
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Subject
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- YOUNG ADULT FICTION + Action & Adventure + Survival Stories
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION + Family + Siblings
- Asia (Steamship) -- Juvenile fiction
- Historical fiction
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION + Historical + Canada
- Shipwrecks -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- Shipwrecks -- Juvenile fiction
- Sea fiction
- Shipwreck survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Survival at sea -- Juvenile fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
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Label
Big water, Andrea Curtis
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 12 and up
Literary form
fiction
Main title
Big water
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Andrea Curtis
Summary
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
Target audience
juvenile
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