The perfect book for any teen or tween who enjoys adventure, humor and swashbuckling (plus heartbreaking) romance. A wonderful read for middle grade kids and adults with a eye for the ocean, The Curse of Captain LaFoote will have you in search of buried treasure. if only Ricky can summon the courage to survive the curse of Captain LaFoote. In true EDDIE JONES fashion, this adventure takes you through the imagination of a young boy and spits you out into the world of pirates.
Ricky picks the past and awakes on a raft in the middle of the sea where there is surprising beauty on every island, danger around every corner and great honor and glory ahead of him. She offers him a choice: go with her to a wonderful afterlife where snowflakes taste like candy or return to the dreary old world he knows. Suddenly Ricky finds himself confronted by his neighbor, a young woman in a pink bathrobe who jumped to her death in order to escape the flames. All Ricky knows is his lonely life with his widowed mom in a tiny apartment overlooking a marina on the Chesapeake Bay.īut all that changes on a snowy Christmas Eve when Ricky's apartment building burns down and he falls into the chilly waters while trying to save BARNACLE, a mangy mutt with shrimp breath. He's never fallen through the floor of Davy Jones' locker, befriended a witch doctor or watched an old fisherman morph into a porpoise. RICKY BRADSHAW has never sailed the Caribbean Sea, searched for buried treasure or battled pirates on the deck of a Spanish Galleon. If you drowned and the sea spit you out, thrusting you back into an age of pirates, buried treasure and beauty beyond belief. * Winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award in the Pre-Teen Fiction/Fantasy category * Winner of the Selah award in Young Adult fiction
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