Hurricane Dancers : The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

English

ISBN: 0805092404

EAN: 9780805092400

Category: Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General

Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry

Release Date: 03/31/2011

Age Range: 12-17

Synopsis: Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado-half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mothers Taino Indian language and his fathers Spanish. But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety. He learns how to live on land again, among people who treat him well. And it is he who must decide the fate of his former captors.

Awards: American Library Association Notable Books for Children – null  American Library Association Notable Books for Children – null 

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Hurricane Dancers : The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.74 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 8.32 inches

Weight: 9.52 oz

Pages: 160