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Emma Blackwell used to love mermaids. Jonah Blackwell used to love pirates. And William Blackwell tried to be a good captain. Which he would be, if he could get his twin brother and sister to stop fighting long enough to sail their boat, the Peregrine, across the bay. But after the Blackwells see a phantom ship, barely survive a terrible storm, and then mysteriously wake up with seaweed in their mouths, everything changes.
They're becalmed in fog. They run aground on a strange island. They hear distant drums, and their weird adventure begins! The Blackwells face zombie pirates, terrifying mermaids, and a shipwrecked group of cursed ship's figureheads, including a Roman gladiator and an English knight, all led by the strange dolphin-boy, Finn.
It'll make a great sea yarn one day, if they can just survive it.
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September 29, 2018 -
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- ISBN: 9781459741089
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- ISBN: 9781459741089
- File size: 2171 KB
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July 15, 2018
An afternoon sail takes a mystical turn when a storm hits, leaving three siblings dangerously stranded.Eleven-year-old twins Jonah and Emma crew a sailboat captained by their older brother, William, on a familiar cross-bay trip. The day begins as it usually does, with the twins bickering, but when Emma's prized conch shell is lost to the sea, magical forces are awakened. A storm strikes, landing the battered craft and crew on a mysterious shore where a terrible mermaid queen holds sway over a horde of bewitched ships' figureheads and zombie pirates. When Jonah and William are both captured, it is up to Emma and her savior, Finn, to save her brothers, defeat the evil queen, and set the enchanted figureheads free. Creepy, filled with peril, and saturated with sea lore, this fifth installment in the Weird Stories Gone Wrong series features a variation on the sea tale. Unfortunately, while the lesson that bad things can happen when siblings fight is strong, the amalgamation of flat characters and a disjointed plot fails to provoke any genuine dread. Diversity is limited to the magical variety, with humans belonging to the white default. A brief glimpse into the original inspiration for the tale along with scattered illustrations and a glossary of seafaring terms provides context. A marginally spooky tale that never finds its sea legs. (Supernatural adventure. 9-12)COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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