Titanic Historical Fiction For Youth Book & Author Promotion with Peggy Wirgau + Giveaway! {Ends 4/21/22}

Apr 30, 2022 | Podcasts, Young Adult

Author Peggy Wirgau, the author of ‘The Stars in April’, a Historical Novel based on the True Story of Twelve-Year-Old Titanic Survivor, Ruth Becker, tells her story.

Meet Peggy Wirgau:

Peggy Wirgau is a Michigan native and now lives in Delray Beach, Florida. She loves bringing history to life for readers. Peggy has written for Appleseeds, Insight, Learning Through History, and contributed to Why? Titanic Moments by Yvonne Lehman. Her debut novel, The Stars In April, is based on the true story of Ruth Becker, twelve-year-old Titanic survivor. Her blog features in-depth Titanic stories, and her followers include descendants of the ship’s real-life victims and survivors.
A graduate of Michigan State University and George Mason University, Peggy is an active member of American Christian Fiction Writers, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Historical Novel Society, and Great Lakes Titanic Connection. She loves to travel and explore historical sites. Peggy is also a Registered Nurse. She and her husband have two adult children and a baby grandson.

To find out more aboutPeggy visit her: Amazon page ~ Website ~ Blog ~ Twitter ~ Facebook ~

The Titanic was such a Tragedy. It is ironic the world is in an uproar with the tragedy of war, so near the same date as when the Titanic left its shores and so many lives were lost.

We remember and honor the well over 2,000 individuals who lost their lives and for those others who sacrificed so greatly among the survivors. It is tragic, yet inspiring.

I appreciate Peggy Wirgau and the many other individuals who have spent hours, days, weeks and months and even years on research to make these Historical Fiction stories come to life in such an accurate way. I am a History “Buff” yet I learn so much I never knew before through Fiction and Non-Fiction writing by talented, dedicated authors, such as Peggy Wirgau!

Watch my Interview with Peggy Here:

Book Details:

The Stars In April By Peggy Wirgau
Hardcover, 266 pages
Published March 30th 2021 by Illuminate YA Fiction (first published March 25th 2021)
ISBN: 164526307X (ISBN13: 9781645263074)

Book Description:

“Sometimes we have to go a long way to find out who we are.”
The year is 1912. When doctors in India are unable to treat her baby brother’s illness, Ruth’s missionary parents decide there is one solution: move her mother and the children across the world—to Michigan.
But India is the only home Ruth knows. In a matter of days, she must leave Papa and all she loves behind, abandon her dream of one day playing violin in the Calcutta Orchestra, and embark on a rollicking, four-week journey across the Arabian and Mediterranean Seas, followed by the voyage to New York aboard the luxurious, ill-fated RMS Titanic.
Ruth’s story is one of courage and self-sacrifice as she earns her sea legs and faces the unknown, culminating in a desperate, tragic night she will never forget.

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