Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado—half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the...
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Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado—half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother’s Taíno Indian language and his father’s Spanish. But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety. He learns how to live on land again, among people who treat him well. And it is he who must decide the fate of his former captors.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805092400 (0805092404)
Publish date: March 15th 2011
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
A beautiful book. The writing is simple yet incredibly full of emotion and thought. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys poetry. Won through GoodReads First Reads.
Interesting historical fiction written in verse.
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