Alone on a hostile sea, far from home, Libby fights for survival. (20060302)
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Grade 7-10–Libby, 14, is on a yearlong sailing adventure with her mother and stepfather, Duncan. Stuck in Djibouti awaiting favorable seas, she makes her discontent known to everyone, at every turn. She deliberately dilly-dallies on the day of departure, which causes her boat to miss traveling with the flotilla as planned. Sailing through dangerous waters, Libby's family is alone when pirates attack. Duncan is killed, and her mother is badly wounded. The teen is left to her own devices to survive, nurse her mother, and find the right course to safety. An exciting and suspenseful survival tale.–Elizabeth Fernandez, Brunswick Middle School, Greenwich, CT
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Gr. 8-11. Libby, the book's sullen, cranky 14-year-old heroine, fights her stepfather, Duncan, at every turn and finds ways to cross her mother. But she is on a year's sailing voyage with them, whining all the way. They miss departing with their flotilla on the Red Sea because Libby is deliberately late. So intending to catch up, the family sails alone; then, modern-day pirates attack them, and, almost simultaneously, a storm comes up. Duncan is murdered, the boat trashed, and Libby's mother seriously injured, leaving Libby to figure out their location, sail the boat, whose engine was wrapped in nets by the pirates, and to try and keep her mother and herself alive. Libby's first-person voice is by turns cocky and terrified, and there's lots of fascinating sailing lore and the joy of watching Libby figure out what to do next, and how to do it. An absolute page-turner. GraceAnne DeCandido
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I picked up this book based on an NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) review. I read it in about four hours and enjoyed every minute of it. There was family conflict, there was a mysterious boyfriend, evil pirates and then racing for survival on a sailboat without a mainsail and limited provisions. I have recommended this book to my department chair and I'm hoping to be able to offer it to my 9th graders. I think it will be a high-interest book for even my most reluctant readers. While the narrator/main character is female, the adventures should appeal to male readers as well.
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