The Pirate's Son
by Geraldine McCaughrean
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Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.Tags
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It was an ok book. Not the best pirate book but it has a good story line. This wasnt the normal type of pirate story most of it took place on land instead of water. That part really bugged me pirates are sea men not land men. Other than that the story was good.
I t is 1776 and Nathan has just been told to leave his exclusive boarding school because his father has died and left he and his sister Maud penniless. Tamo White, wealthy son on an ex-pirate , takes Nathan and Maud back with him to Madagascar, and there they fall foul of a band of pirates themselves have to flee to a native village. Everything settles down after awhile until a sail is spotted on the horizon. It is King Samson a ruthless pirate who needs a new base and wants to settle in their village. What will Nathan, Maud & Tamo do?
This novel is about orphaned Nathan and Maud Gull and their survival and adventures with Tamo White - the pirate's son. Their travels bring them to Madagascar and force them to turn pirate. This book has a higher reading level and would work for kids in grades 5-9.
SLJ starred review!
Orig. publ. OUP, 1996
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Geraldine McCaughrean was born in Enfield, England on June 6, 1951. She was educated at Christ Church College, Canterbury. She has written more than 160 books and plays for children and adults. Her writing career includes the retelling of such classics as One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, The Canterbury Tales, and The Bronze Cauldron: Myths and show more Legends of the World, which is a collection of stories from all over the world. She has received numerous awards including three Whitbread Children's Book Awards for A Little Lower Than the Angels, Gold Dust, and Not the End of the World. She also received the Guardian Prize and Carnegie Medal for A Pack of Lies, the Beefeater Children's Novel Award for Gold Dawn, the Michael L. Printz Award for The White Darkness, and the 2018 Carnegie Medal for children's and YA books for her middle-grade novel Where the World Ends. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Pirate's Son
- Original title
- The Pirate's Son
- Alternate titles
- Plundering Paradise
- People/Characters
- Nathan Gull; Maud Gull; Tamo White
- Important places
- Madagascar
- Disambiguation notice
- The Pirate's Son was also published as Plundering Paradise.
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Teen
- DDC/MDS
- 823.914 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PZ7 .M4784133 .P — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- English, German, Italian, Spanish
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