- Ships, Fiction, Self-perception, Sex role
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and intimate.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Avi
- First published
- June 1998
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Xin lei chu ban she, Orchard Books / Scholastic, Castor Poche Flammarion
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- Japanese, Chinese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780545477116
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“Just before dusk in the late afternoon of June 16, 1832, I found myself walking along the crowded docks of Liverpool, England, following a man by the name of Grummage.”
Edward Irving Worti (born on December 23, 1937), better known as Avi, is an American author of young adult and children's literature.
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