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The dagger Quick

Twelve-year-old Christopher "Kitto" Wheale, a clubfooted boy seemingly doomed to follow in the boring footsteps of his father as a cooper in seventeenth-century England, finds himself on a dangerous seafaring adventure with his newly discovered uncle, the infamous pirate William Quick.

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Main Author: Eames, Brian
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Pirates > Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction.
People with disabilities > Juvenile fiction.
Adventure stories > Juvenile.
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Summary:Twelve-year-old Christopher "Kitto" Wheale, a clubfooted boy seemingly doomed to follow in the boring footsteps of his father as a cooper in seventeenth-century England, finds himself on a dangerous seafaring adventure with his newly discovered uncle, the infamous pirate William Quick.
Item Description:"A Paula Wiseman book"--Jkt. flap.
"A Junior Library Guild selection."
Physical Description:320 p. ; 22 cm.
Audience:Ages 8-12.
ISBN:9781442423114 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1442423110 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author Notes:Brian Eames has taught for fifteen years at the Paideia School, a K-12 independent school in Atlanta. He read his first novel, The Dagger Quick , out loud to his class as he wrote it. Publishers Weekly called The Dagger Quick "thoroughly researched, fast-paced, and tense...embraces the mythical glamour of a pirate's life." He lives with his wife and children in Atlanta. Visit him at TheDaggerQuick.com.

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