The Titanic Mission (Flashback Four Series #2)

by Dan Gutman

Overview

In New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman’s thrilling Flashback Four series, four very different kids are picked by a mysterious billionaire to travel through time and photograph some of history's most important events. Blends fascinating real history with an action-packed adventure!

This time, Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel are headed to the deck of the doomed Titanic. Their mission? Capture a shot of the sinking ship, then come right back.

The only problem is, once they arrive aboard the ship, the four friends can’t agree on what to do next. Should they try to save the passengers? Or maybe bring back a priceless book before it sinks with the ship?

With real historical photographs to put young readers right in the action, plus back matter that separates fact from fiction, The Titanic Mission tells the story of the ship’s fateful last voyage like you’ve never seen it before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062236357
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/04/2017
Series:	Flashback Four Series , #2
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	670L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Dan Gutman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Genius Files series; the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies around the world; and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 36 million copies. Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, Dan has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. He lives in New York City with his wife. You can visit him online at dangutman.com.

Editorial Reviews

A fun and fast read, illustrated with photos of the past that really do exist.

Booklist

2017-01-17
In the second installment of the Flashback Four series, time-travelers Luke, Julia, David, and Isabel are off on a new adventure, this time boarding the Titanic to snap a photograph as it sinks. The friends (Luke and Julia are white, David is African-American, and Latina Isabel is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic) failed in their debut mission: to get a picture of Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address. Now they're anxious for a new adventure and decide to visit the Titanic on April 15, 1912, the day it sank. Their employer, white, wheelchair-using billionaire Chris Zandergoth, uses her interactive smartboard as a time-traveling device and equips the kids with a new Text Through Time device so she can communicate with them and pull them off the ship just before it sinks. Of course, even with the TTT, everything does not go swimmingly, and the foursome may well get trapped in time, if they survive at all. An introduction presents the basic Titanic story, archival photographs are scattered throughout the text, and a concluding "Facts & Fictions" section tells more. Gutman enriches the tale with moral dilemmas, including whether or not the protagonists should go against instructions to record but not change history and warn the captain of the impending disaster. A fizzy, fast-paced read with lots of history woven in. (Adventure. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews

Praise for Flashback Four #1: The Lincoln Project — ;

“History can be hilarious, at least in the hands of author Dan Gutman.” — Washington Post

“Breezy, good-natured fun and a fair amount of history, too” — Kirkus Reviews

“A fun and fast read, illustrated with photos of the past that really do exist.” — Booklist

“This will be a high-demand title.” — School Library Journal

From the Publisher

Praise for Flashback Four #1: The Lincoln Project

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History can be hilarious, at least in the hands of author Dan Gutman.

Washington Post

A fun and fast read, illustrated with photos of the past that really do exist.

Booklist

History can be hilarious, at least in the hands of author Dan Gutman.

Washington Post

Breezy, good-natured fun and a fair amount of history, too

Stephanie Garber