Product Description
Lisbet “Bet” Lindstrom is the 13-year-old daughter of a sea captain convicted of theft and sent to prison. Bet is convinced her father is innocent, but she has no way to prove it. Desperate to free her father, she visits his old fishing boat, and spots a horribly scarred sailor who might know the truth about the crime. Ignoring the warnings of her friends, she secretly jumps aboard the ship and sails to Alaska. She braves huge storms, performs daring rescues, and faces the man who threatens everything she loves.
Praise for Bet: Stowaway Daughter
Bet: Stowaway Daughter is a wonderful new addition to the genre of tales about seafaring girls. Fast-paced, with plenty of twists and turns, the novel moves from the salty wharves of Depression-era Seattle to the rough waters of Alaska. Bet shows her mettle—and her math skills—in solving a mystery at sea. I loved the details of the sailors’ lives on one of the last sail-powered fishing boats along the Northwest coast, but it’s the portrayal of Bet and her love for her father that really pulled me along until the exciting last pages. This is a book for girls—but also for anyone who loves ships and the sea.
—Barbara Sjoholm, author, The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea
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I love this novel! I don’t know if having daughters has influenced the author but Joe Follansbee has conceived a smart, gutsy, yet very believable female protagonist whom I cheered for from page one.
Setting, character, plot — Follansbee has woven them together beautifully. Stowaway Daughter is filled with adventure and suspense aboard a fishing boat in the Bering Sea, but what I liked best was Bet herself; a smart, gutsy, yet fallible girl on a mission to clear her father’s name. I have no doubt the heroine of the story will grow up to be a mathematician, a prosecuting attorney, or captain of her own fishing fleet.
As one who loves historical novels about girls throwing themselves into a man’s world and not only surviving but thriving, I greatly enjoyed Stowaway Daughter; a novel for smart girls and boys of any age.
—Linda Collison, author of Star-Crossed and The Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series.
Praise for Bet: Stowaway Daughter
Bet: Stowaway Daughter is a wonderful new addition to the genre of tales about seafaring girls. Fast-paced, with plenty of twists and turns, the novel moves from the salty wharves of Depression-era Seattle to the rough waters of Alaska. Bet shows her mettle—and her math skills—in solving a mystery at sea. I loved the details of the sailors’ lives on one of the last sail-powered fishing boats along the Northwest coast, but it’s the portrayal of Bet and her love for her father that really pulled me along until the exciting last pages. This is a book for girls—but also for anyone who loves ships and the sea.
—Barbara Sjoholm, author, The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea
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I love this novel! I don’t know if having daughters has influenced the author but Joe Follansbee has conceived a smart, gutsy, yet very believable female protagonist whom I cheered for from page one.
Setting, character, plot — Follansbee has woven them together beautifully. Stowaway Daughter is filled with adventure and suspense aboard a fishing boat in the Bering Sea, but what I liked best was Bet herself; a smart, gutsy, yet fallible girl on a mission to clear her father’s name. I have no doubt the heroine of the story will grow up to be a mathematician, a prosecuting attorney, or captain of her own fishing fleet.
As one who loves historical novels about girls throwing themselves into a man’s world and not only surviving but thriving, I greatly enjoyed Stowaway Daughter; a novel for smart girls and boys of any age.
—Linda Collison, author of Star-Crossed and The Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series.
About the Author
Joe Follansbee is the author of six books, including Shipbuilders, Sea Captains and Fishermen:
The Story of the Schooner Wawona, and The
Fyddeye Guide to America's Maritime History. He runs a companion website to
the Fyddeye Guide at fyddeye.com.
He also works as the communications director for the tall ships Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain. Bet:
Stowaway Daughter is his first novel. He lives in Seattle with his wife,
two daughters, four chickens, and a rat.
