The Giant Rat of Sumatra

ISBN: 9780060742393

作者: Sid Fleischman/John Hendrix

出版社: Harpercollins

出版年: 2005-2

页数: 208

定价: $ 16.89

装帧: LIB

内容简介

A swashbuckling pirate ship cuts through the early morning fog. Crouching like a tiger about to spring, her figurehead is a huge and ferocious rat with crooked teeth and gouged-out eyes. When the daring Giant Rat of Sumatra drops anchor in San Diego, twelve-year-old cabin boy Shipwreck only wants to begin his long journey home to Boston. Instead he encounters: snarling mutineers

barefoot bandits

hairbreadth escapes

duels

cunning barkeeps

simmering revenge

secret identities

scrappy orphans

betrayals

lost loves

old enemies

new villains

heroic last stands and razzle-dazzle treasure so well hidden that only someone as quick and clever as Shipwreck could keep up with it. Plucked from the sea by the most notorious pirate in the Pacific, Shipwreck discovers his adventure is only beginning.