Cooper, Judging Amy, and CSI: Miami.īarry O’Brien was born in San Francisco, California, to a large Irish Catholic family. His credits include Happy Days, Perfect Strangers, Hangin' with Mr. The book says ages twelve and up, but every child in my son’s fourth-grade classroom (age ten) read it to begin their school year, and I think that is a more accurate audience age.Terra Linda High School, Santa Clara UniversityĬhildren's books, suspense, crime fiction, action, adventure, humourīarry O'Brien (born 1957) is an American television writer and producer best known as the co-creator of Disney Channel Original Series Hannah Montana.
This is a well-written, simple story, for a young audience. Through naïve Barry, Bunting adeptly displays class prejudice and the dire consequences of being a third-class passenger on the Titanic. Every reader knows the Titanic will sink, but one doesn’t know who will survive and who will drown. Bunting plays with some foreshadowing of the disaster and cleverly draws out the suspense. Barry’s desire to protect Pegeen when the ship hits the iceberg makes the story extra exciting. To complicate his problems, Barry befriends the brothers’ beautiful sister, Pegeen Flynn, who is also unhappy about moving to America. Barry is a first-class passenger on the Titanic, and the Flynns are traveling steerage, but Barry does not feel safe from their threats. Barry is unhappy with this move, made worse by his annoying chaperon and by the Flynn brothers, two ruffians from his hometown who have it in for him. At the age of fifteen, he is being sent to join his parents in America.
Barry O’Neill has been raised by his grandparents in Ireland. With the coming anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, Harcourt is re-releasing this children’s novel of the event.
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