Capsized! : the forgotten story of the SS Eastland disaster / Patricia Sutton.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2018Description: xx, 155 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781613739433 (hardback) :
- 917.73/110441 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Adult Book | Phillipsburg Free Public Library | YA Non-Fiction | YA Non-Fiction | YA 917.73 SUT | Available | 36748002454694 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
New York Public Library's "100 Best Books for Kids"
Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of 2018"
2019 Society of Midland Authors Literary Award Honoree
2019 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People List
2019 Cybils Literary Award Winner
A 2019 Cooperative Children's Book Center's Choice
Wisconsin Writers Contest 2018 Winner of the Tofte/Wright Children's Literary Award
On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland , filled to capacity with 2,500 passengers and crew, capsized in the Chicago River while still moored to the pier. Happy picnic-goers headed for an employee outing across Lake Michigan suddenly found themselves in a struggle for their lives. Trapped belowdecks, crushed by the crowds attempting to escape the rising waters, or hurled into the river from the upper deck of the ship, roughly one-third of the passengers, mostly women and children, perished that day.
The Eastland disaster took more passenger lives than the Titanic and stands today as the greatest loss of life on the Great Lakes. Capsized! details the events leading up to the fateful day and provides a nail-biting, minute-by-minute account of the ship's capsizing. From the courage of the survivors to the despair of families who lost loved ones, author Patricia Sutton brings to light the stories of ordinary working people enduring the unthinkable.
Capsized! also raises critical-thinking questions for young readers: Why do we know so much about the Titanic 's sinking yet so little about the Eastland disaster? What causes a tragedy to be forgotten and left out of society's collective memory? And what lessons from this disaster might we be able to apply today?
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland, filled to capacity with 2,500 aboard, capsized in the Chicago River while still moored to the pier. The disaster took more passenger lives than theTitanic and stands today as the greatest loss of life on the Great Lakes. Capsized! details the events leading up to the fateful day of the disaster and provides a nail-biting, minute-by-minute account of the ship's capsizing. Kids follow the lives of workers and their families, mostly first- and second-generation Polish and Czech immigrants employed by Chicago's largest manufacturer, Western Electric's Hawthorne Works. From the courage of the survivors to the despair of families who lost loved ones, Capsized! brings the stories of ordinary working people enduring the unthinkable to light. It also raises critical-thinking questions for young readers: Why do we know so much aboutTitanic's sinking and yet so little about theEastland disaster? What causes a tragedy to be forgotten and left out of society's collective memory? Why was no one ever held responsible for this catastrophe? What lessons from this disaster might we be able to apply today?"-- Provided by publisher.
"Capsized! details the events leading up to the fateful day of the SS Eastland disaster and provides a nail-biting, minute-by-minute account of the ship's capsizing"-- Provided by publisher.
Age 10+
Grade 4 to 6.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Main Characters (p. xi)
- Prologue (p. xiii)
- 1 Summer Wouldn't Be Summer Without the Picnic (p. 1)
- 2 Fellowship at Work and Home (p. 13)
- 3 Greyhound of the Lakes (p. 21)
- 4 Like a Pendulum Swinging (p. 37)
- 5 Stand By! Ready for Departure! (p. 49)
- 6 Forty-Five Degrees (p. 57)
- 7 Rescue and Recovery (p. 79)
- 8 Eighty-Five in Each Row (p. 99)
- 9 Buried Memories (p. 107)
- Epilogue (p. 123)
- Author's Note (p. 131)
- Acknowledgments (p. 135)
- Notes (p. 137)
- Bibliography (p. 145)
- Image Credits (p. 149)
- Index (p. 151)