Pirates! by Celia Rees

Pirates! by Celia Rees

It is the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger, and gold. But two unusually adventurous girls-a rich merchant's daughter, Nancy Kington, and her former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe-take to the high seas from Jamaica on a ship the crew renames Deliverance. Not just any trading ship, the Deliverance flies black flags from its mast, proclaiming to all that the newly named, hijacked ship is a pirate vessel, striking fear into the hearts of those she approaches. Or so they hope.
For Nancy, the Deliverance is her escape from an arranged betrothal to a controlling and devilish man. For Minerva, it is escape from slavery, as well as from the fearsome overseer on Nancy's family plantation. But in the end, the money, the adventure, the companionship, and the chance to see the world not as women, but as bold and daring pirates, is an opportunity neither can ignore.
A powerful, thrilling, and ultimately inspiring journey of two women who break the bonds of gender, race, and position to find their own way to glory.
Recognition
A Book Sense Top Ten Children's Pick A PW Daily Editor's Pick An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A YALSA Top Ten Teen Book An International Reading Association Young Adult Choice VOYA's Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age A Texas Tayshas Reading List Book A Michigan Library Association Teen Services Division Thumbs Up Award A Kentucky Bluegrass Awards Reading List Book Nominated for the 2006 Nevada Young Reader's Award in the YA category
Pirates has been awarded the 2004 Michigan Library Association Teen Services Division Thumbs Up Award.
The American Library Association chose Pirates as one of 2004's Best Books for Young Adults. A 15-member committee compiles the list from over 900 submissions. Chosen books meet the criteria of both good literary quality an

Celia Rees is the author of many novels for teens. WITCH CHILD is her first with Candlewick Press. After reading about seventeenth-century witch persecutions and Native American shamanism, she says, It occurred to me that the beliefs and skills that would have condemned a woman to death in one society would have been revered in another. That got me thinking, what if there was a girl who could move between these two worlds?... Mary came into my head and WITCH CHILD began.

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ISBN 13	9781582348162
ISBN 10	1582348162
Title	Pirates!
Author	Celia Rees
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Binding type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Year published	2003-10-06
Number of pages	384
Prizes	Commended for Tayshas Reading 2005, Short-listed for Nevada Young Readers' Award (Young Adult) 2006, Short-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Junior Book) 2005, Short-listed for Iowa High School Book Award 2006, Short-listed for Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award 2005, Short-listed for Grand Canyon Reader Award (Teen) 2006, Short-listed for Rhode Island Teen Book Award 2005, Short-listed for Evergreen Young Adult Book Award 2006
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