false 143727 16 Nancy Kington, a wealthy merchant's daughter living in Bristol, England in the early 1700's, is sometimes lonely but enjoys the privileges her father's business brings. Minerva Sharpe is a penniless slave's daughter living and working on the Kington's Jamaican plantation. These two young women, united through a set of extraordinary circumstances including a brutal murder, an arranged marriage, and set of ruby earrings, find themselves sailing the high seas in search of love, adventure and freedom&#151;as pirates!<p> Celebrated British author Celia Rees (<I>Witch Child</I>, <I>Sorceress</I>) has penned a treasure chest of a tale that will keep teens glued to the pages until the last villain sinks to a deserved watery grave and the last beautiful heroine is reunited with her lost love. Frustrated land-lubbers will want to follow up this four-star read with L.A. Meyer's <I>Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy</I> or Sara Lorimer`s <I>Booty</I>, a collection of all-true tales of swashbuckling women.<I>--Jennifer Hubert</I> 1434148 2003 Pirates! total:1219|5:375|4:455|3:302|2:79|1:8| 1219 4767 1644 179 2 4 false false Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 06:26:33 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 05:45:11 -0700 2008
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Pirates pulled me into the story through the narration of Nancy whose beautiful, rhythmic flow of language hooked and captured me. For the narrator took her time with ease and smoothness to tell us her story - this ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri May 02 21:58:40 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 22:35:18 -0700 2008
It's about a girl who has to marry some creepy guy to save her family's "rank" in life. Don't you just hate t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 15 16:27:21 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 17:16:44 -0700 2009 The best I can think to compare this to is if Robert ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 16:03:23 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 09:09:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 13:07:14 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 13:17:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 11:37:47 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 11:41:43 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Sep 10 14:25:16 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 14:25:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 05 08:10:17 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 08:14:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 06:44:30 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 04:45:30 -0700 2009 Admittedly no, this book isn't high brow world rocking literature; but then how close could anything with an exclamation mark in the title get?
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and tragically, the odd severed head.

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