The Book Report, September 1st, 2001
2001. 318pp. $22.95 hc. Philomel/Penguin Putnam. 0-399-23601-5. Grades 5-8
The first section of this story begins in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1610. A young boy slips off a pier and is left for dead by his bullying stepbrothers, but manages to pull himself out of the sea and onto the stern of the Danish sailing vessel, The Flying Dutchman. Once discovered, he's promptly enslaved in the ship's galley. Fearful of both the sullen seamen and the cruel captain, his only friend is a scrawny, wharf-side dog he manages to coax aboard. As the voyage progresses, the crew turns mutinous, and in the mids...
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