Once Upon a Book Club YA Box Spoiler May 2021
Once Upon a Book Club is a unique, interactive online community that offers a monthly subscription service where readers will receive a monthly box in the mail containing a newly released book to read for the month, along with 3-5 individually wrapped gifts.
Here’s a hint for the May Once Upon a Book Club YA Box….
We are so pleased to announce our May Young Adult Hint, The Unsinkable Ship!
This critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author brings forward a richly imagined story of twin British – Chinese acrobats traveling aboard the Titanic on its ill fated maiden voyage.
Southampton, 1912: A Seventeen-year-old British-Chinese has quit her job and smuggled herself aboard the Titanic with two goals in mind: to reunite with her twin brother–her only family now that both their parents are dead–and to convince a part-owner of the Ringling Brothers Circus to take the twins on as acrobats.
With some quick-thinking, talks her way into opulent first class accommodations and finds her brother with a group of fellow Chinese laborers in third class. But in the rigidly stratified world of the luxury liner, her ruse can only last so long, and after two long years apart, it’s unclear if her brother even wants the life she proposes.
Then, one moonless night in the North Atlantic, the unthinkable happens–the supposedly unsinkable ship is dealt a fatal blow–and her companions suddenly find themselves in a race to survive.
A master author of historical fiction, brings a fresh perspective to an infamous tragedy, loosely inspired by the recently uncovered account of six Titanic survivors of Chinese descent.
Full of rich prose, this gorgeous novel is one full of enlightening bits of history often neglected and will keep you in suspense to the very end.
What You Get: Once Upon a Book Club subscribers will receive one newly released, adult or young adult fiction book geared to ages 14+. Genre varies by box. Boxes also include 3 to 5 individually wrapped gifts labeled with page numbers, not meant to be opened until reaching that particular page. Each item is pulled straight from the story and placed into the hands of readers, bringing the book to life.
-AYOB