The pirate's son

By Geraldine McCaughrean

Subjects: Madagascar, fiction, Voyages and travels, fiction, Pirates, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Children's fiction, Pirates, History

Description: Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.