![]() ![]() The dog, whom he names Star, plays an important role in saving Sam. Sam talks Phineas McDougal, a steward in charge of the kennel, into letting him help with the dogs and he falls in love with the Irish setter who belongs to the ship’s owner, Bruce Ismay. ![]() White Star is a young person’s novel about twelve-year-old Sam Harris, whose father had died so he was sent to England to live with his grandparents but after his mother remarried was returning to the United States on the Titanic with his mother’s friend Lady Lavinia Cabot and his school friend Bucky Kingsbury. It has a lot of interesting information about dogs but is marred a little by extensive references to the “evolution” of the dog over millions of years. ![]() We had read another work that Crisp authored, a reality book entitled Everything Dog: What Kids Really Want to Know About Dogs. Marty Crisp is apparently a writer who specializes in dogs. White Star: A Dog on the Titanic (published in 2004 by Holiday House Inc., 425 Madison, New York City, NY 10017 republished by Scholastic Inc., 557 Broadway, New York City, NY 10012). Language level: 2 (some common euphemisms)įor more information e-mail Marty. ![]() Publisher: Scholastic Inc., reprinted in 2006 ![]()
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