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Book SynopsisFrom master storyteller Patricia Polacco comes the tragic and beautiful story inspired by Wallace Hartley—the musician who played with his band to calm the passengers of the Titanic as the ship sank.One afternoon, Jonathan Harker Weeks didn’t feel like practicing the piano. So his grandfather decided to tell him a story to show how much of an impact music can have. When he was a child growing up poor in Ireland, his mother made sure he learned to play the fiddle, despite their challenges.
After his mother passed away and he was on his own, Jonathan’s grandfather fell asleep hiding in a mail sack and was taken to a ship. When he woke up, he realized he was on the
Titanic on its maiden voyage, and it was there that he met Wallace Hartley and Mrs. Weeks, a kind man and woman who took him in. Then one night, the majestic ship hit an iceberg. He and Mrs. Weeks were put on a lifeboat—and Mr. Hartley and his band bravely continued t
Trade Review"A tribute to Wallace Hartley, the bandleader who played on as the R.M.S. Titanic was sinking.... Readers will come away appreciating Hartley's fortitude." *
-- Kirkus Reviews *
"Polacco meshes fact and fiction in a lengthy, emotion-steeped story that opens seven decades after the sinking of the
Titanic....as a ficticitous survivor tells his grandson about the horrific event." *
Publishers Weekly *
