| ISBN |
9780369306623 (paperback) |
| Name |
French, Jackie author. |
| Title |
Pirate boy of Sydney town : [Dyslexic Friendly Edition] / Jackie French. |
| Edition |
Dyslexic friendly edition. |
| Published |
[Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.] : ReadHowYouWant, [2019] |
| ©2019 |
| Description |
i, 325 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
"When danger looms, who do you trust?" -- Cover. |
| Copyright page from the original book. |
| Optimized reading formats. |
| Set in 12 pt. Dyslexie. |
| Printed on tinted paper and with a dyslexia friendly font. |
| Summary |
Twelve-year-old Ben Huntsmore is the son of a ship-owner, an only child who loves the farming life on his family's estate, Badger's Hill. But when Ben's father loses their ancestral home to pay a gambling debt, Ben reluctantly joins his father in a desperate venture to win back their home, capturing enemy trading ships off the west Australian coast. While at sea, Ben must face not just the giant waves of the Southern Ocean but also Dutch guns, as well as unexpected treachery as he realises that his almost-unknown father will sacrifice even his son to make his fortune. Only the unexpected friendships of the mysterious convict Higgins and young Indigenous sailor Guwara will help Ben survive, as well as show him the true meaning of loyalty and riches. From one of Australia's most-renowned children's authors comes a book filled with swashbuckling adventures that uncovers Australian's hidden history as a pirate port and slavers' den. |
| Target audience note |
10+ years old. |
| Reading Program Note |
Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9. |
| Subjects |
Shipowners -- Juvenile fiction |
| Gambling -- Juvenile fiction |
| Only child -- Juvenile fiction |
| Pirates -- Juvenile fiction |
| Youth, Aborginal Australian -- Juvenile fiction |
| Friendship -- Juvenile fiction |
| Children's stories |
| Australian fiction |
| Easy to read materials |
| High interest-low vocabulary books |
| Genre |
Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9 |
| Historical fiction |
| Sea stories |
| Dyslexic friendly books |
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