Content: G
BUYING ADVISORY: EL - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Stephen Oh-O’Driscoll is obsessed with pirates. Not the thieving dangerous types, but what he calls “piventurates”, who love discovery and travel. His obsession gets him trouble when he hurts his best friend when they are practicing their sword skills during recess. Now that he’s suspended, his mother takes him to the local museum where he learns that the founder of their town may have been a pirate himself. But Stephen will find out for himself when an encounter with a local landmark pulls him into the land of the dead, where Captain Sapperton is stuck inbetween - a dangerous place for a ghost.
Every time I heard “piventurate” I cringed. The crux of the story comes much too late - Stephen is annoying with his 5yo-like obsession and by the time I got to the ghosts I almost didn’t care. If you can get this in paperback at some time, I would recommend it, just because the set-up seems worthwhile for book #2. Stephen is half Korean, half white. Audiobook provided by Libro.fm
Cindy, Library Teacher
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