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    Big Water

    By Andrea Curtis

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    Seventeen-year-old Christina McBurney has led a sheltered life. But when her twin brother, Jonathan, dies of consumption, Christina, unwilling to be farmed out as a nursemaid or teacher, runs away from home and her destiny. In Owen Sound she boards the Asia, a steamship that transports passengers and freight throughout the Great Lakes. She doesn't really have a plan other than to get to Sault Ste. Marie. She'll figure things out once she's settled.

    But a violent storm suddenly rises on Georgian Bay, and the overloaded and top-heavy steamship begins to sink. Christina is tossed overboard. Pulled to safety just before she loses consciousness, she finds herself on a lifeboat, surrounded by a number of bedraggled and terrified passengers and crew. One by one they succumb to their injuries, until only Christina and a brooding young man named Daniel are left alive.

    The usual rules of society no longer apply—Daniel and Christina must now work together as equals to survive.

    Big Water is a fictional account of the real-life story of the only two survivors of the sinking of the SS Asia in 1882.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOrca Book Publishers
    Release dateMar 6, 2018
    ISBN9781459815735
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    Andrea Curtis

    ANDREA CURTIS’s children’s non-fiction includes A Forest in the City, City of Water, City Street are for People and City of Neighbors in the ThinkCities series. She has also written the young adult novel Big Water and other books for young readers. Andrea lives with her family in Toronto, Ontario, where she likes to doodle, cook for friends and spend as much time as possible on her bike.

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