A stunning middle-grade debut--full of heart, humor, and nonstop action
It's tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody's trying to kill you.
Not
that Egg's life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested
Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a
pair of unusually violent siblings who hate his guts.
But when Egg's
father hustles their family off on a mysterious errand to fabulously
wealthy Sunrise Island, then disappears with the siblings in a freak
accident, Egg finds himself a long-term guest at the mansion of the
glamorous Pembroke family and their beautiful, sharp-tongued daughter
Millicent. Finally, life seems perfect.
Until someone tries to throw him off a cliff.
Suddenly,
Egg's running for his life in a bewildering world of cutthroat pirates,
villainous businessmen, and strange Native legends. The only people who
can help him sort out the mystery of why he's been marked for death are
Millicent and a one-handed, possibly deranged cabin boy.
Come along for the ride. You'll be glad you did.
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