Icebound!
The Adventures of Young George Sheldon
and the SS Michigan
by Valerie van Heest
A Shipwreck Story of Daring and
Adventure and it’s True!
Text and Illustrations Valerie Olson -
2008
Available Feb. 2008
A regional, historical fiction, young readers book.
ISBN: 978-0-9801750-1-1 48 pages, full color throughout, 11 x 8.5
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ICEBOUND! is an inspiring two-part
story of perseverance and bravery that begins in 1885 and concludes
in the present day.
Young George Sheldon, a porter aboard the steamship SS Michigan, is
drawn into the adventure of a lifetime when his ship becomes trapped
in the pack-ice in Lake Michigan during the great winter storm of
1885. Because of George’s heroic efforts, the captain and all
twenty-nine crewmen live to tell the story of how after thirty-nine
icebound days, their ship is slowly crushed by the ice and sinks to
the bottom of the lake far off the shore of Holland, Michigan.
One hundred twenty years later, a determined team of scuba divers
spend three long years searching the depths of Lake Michigan until
they finally find the wreck of the SS Michigan in 275 feet of water.
When they dive down to the shipwreck they discover it is a time
capsule with everything just the way George and the crew left it
when they abandoned their ship to make the dangerous walk across
miles of frozen lake. They even find the oil lanterns that young
George kept lit through the whole ordeal!
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