The Stars in April

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>2022 SCWC Notable Book Award Winner | Young Adult Category</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Based on the True Story of Twelve-Year-Old <em>Titanic </em>Survivor Ruth Becker</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><em>Sometimes we have to go a long way to find out who we are.</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The year is 1912. When doctors in India are unable to treat her baby brother's illness Ruth's missionary parents decide there is one solution: move her mother and the children across the world-to Michigan. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>But India is the only home Ruth knows. In a matter of days she must leave Papa and all she loves behind abandon her dream of one day playing violin in the Calcutta Orchestra and embark on a rollicking four-week journey across the Arabian and Mediterranean Seas followed by the voyage to New York aboard the luxurious ill-fated RMS </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Titanic</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Ruth's story is one of courage and self-sacrifice as she earns her sea legs and faces the unknown culminating in a desperate tragic night she will never forget.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>I feel as though I'm sitting in Ruth's apartment and she is sharing her life story with me ... so very well-written ... one can hardly stop reading.-Floyd Andrick former Titanic Historical Society member and personal friend of Ruth Becker</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Curriculum Guide available to</span><span style=color: rgba(47 47 43 1)> Common Core State Standards for Grades 5-8 at </span>www.peggywirgau.com<span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>.</span></p>