Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer explores the Titanic and forms a brief friendship with another passenger before experiencing the wreck of the giant ocean liner

When a famous archaeologist has the priceless jewel he is carrying to London aboard a cruise ship stolen, Samantha and Nellie help him narrow down the suspects.

In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.

Life with a toddler can be perplexing.  Parents sorely need the practical advice Dr. Brazelton offers for surviving - and enjoying - the struggles and triumphs of their child at this age.  In this careful revision of his classic work, he emphasizes the special strains on working parents, the role of fathers, and the needs of toddlers in day-care centers.