Then one night the unthinkable happens, and suddenly Val’s dreams of a new life are crushed under the weight of the only thing that matters: survival. But the clock is ticking as the ship makes its way across the Atlantic, and she has just seven days to find Jamie, perform for the circus owner, and convince him to help get them both into America. Thankfully, there’s not much a trained acrobat like Val can’t overcome when she puts her mind to it.Īs a stowaway, Val should keep her head down and stay out of sight. After Valora Luck's parents died, she was alone except for her twin brother Jamie, who had been away for a couple of years. Her twin brother, Jamie, who has spent two long years at sea, is there, as is an influential circus owner whom Val hopes to audition for. Penguin Random House, New York, NY, 2021.

Putnam, 18.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4098-6 After two years apart from her twin brother, Jamie, British Chinese Valora Luck, 17, is boarding the. Luck of the Titanic highlights the racism and prejudice against Chinese people at the time. Valora and Jamie often performed in the park as children to earn money to feed the family, and Valora found it. BUY THIS BOOK Luck of the Titanic Stacey Lee. She has Chinese facial features and often wishes she looked more like her mother because of the anti-Chinese sentiment in this era. Much to her surprise, though, she’s turned away at the gangway apparently, Chinese aren’t allowed into America.īut Val has to get on that ship. Valora is the daughter of a Chinese father and a British mother and Jamies twin sister.

Valora Luck has two things: a ticket for the biggest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world, and a dream of leaving England behind and making a life for herself as a circus performer in New York.

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