HISTORY'S MYSTERIES: Ship of Dreams

By Donna L. Martin

Amelia Earmouse travels back through time to uncover little known secrets. You may THINK you know your history, but wait until you see what Amelia uncovers in this latest volume of HISTORY'S MYSTERIES!

In Book One, Ship of Dreams, ten-year-old Margaret can hardly wait to see the largest ship ever built

• Language: English
• Publisher: STORY CATCHER PUBLISHING
• Release date: Sep 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9781732327825

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History’s Mysteries: Ship of Dreams

Contents

History’s Mysteries: Ship of Dreams

Meet Amelia Earmouse

Title Page

The Journal

The Coal Strike

The Docks

Sasha and the Coalies

Southampton Celebrates

A Nice Stranger

Cold Times

Meeting Luigi

Abandoning Ship

Saying Goodbye

Never Forget

The Rest of the Story

Discussion Questions

Suggested Reading

Bibliography

About the Author

Meet Amelia Earmouse, time traveler and discoverer of history’s mysteries!

Copyright © 2019 by Donna L Martin

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Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.

Book formatting by Kelly Hashway

Knoxville/Donna L Martin—First Edition

ISBN 978-1-7323278-2-5 eBook

ISBN 978-1-7323278-3-2 Print

Printed in the United States of America

Dedicated To:

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My critique partners,

Debbie Dadey

Rick Starkey

And

Rinda Beach

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You are the wind beneath my

writerly wings

The Journal

Wednesday, March 20 th, 1912

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Dear Journal,

This is my first time writing in you. I got you for my birthday today from Aunt Alberta. Momma says every young lady should keep a journal of her most private thoughts. I asked her what kind of thoughts a ten-year-old girl would have that was important enough to write down. Momma told me not to be so saucy. There’s just no talking to Momma when she scrunches up her eyebrows and her smile turns upside down, so here I am, scribbling on this blank page just to be able to tell her I wrote my thoughts today.

Well, there is one thing I can tell you DIDN’T happen today, Journal, and that’s the maiden voyage of the White Star Line’s newest ship. They call the ship Titanic and I hear it’s the biggest one ever built! Momma and I were supposed to meet Papa down at the docks to say goodbye to all those folks traveling to faraway places like America. It was going to be kind of special, it being my birthday and all. I must remember to ask Papa at dinner tonight what happened. Papa sure is lucky to be one of White Star Line’s tally men. He might oversee loading things onto the ships, but he hears all the latest gossip down on the docks as well. That means Momma and I do too…

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Margaret closed her journal and blew out the lantern.