5/31/2023 0 Comments Pirates book celia rees![]() ![]() Would recommend it to my students and my daughters. ![]() "This is a great adventure book for adolescent fiction. A powerful, thrilling, and ultimately inspiring journey of two women who break the bonds of gender, race, and position to find their own way to glory. But in the end, the money, the adventure, the companionship, and the chance to see the world not as women, but as bold and daring pirates, is an opportunity neither can deny. For Minerva, it is an escape from slavery, as well as from the fearsome overseer on Nancy's family plantation. For Nancy, the Deliverance is her escape from an arranged betrothal to a controlling and devilish man. Not just any trading ship, the Deliverance flies black flags from its mast, proclaiming to all that the newly named, hijacked ship is a pirate vessel, striking fear into the hearts of those she approaches. ![]() ![]() But two unusually adventurous girls-a rich merchant's daughter, Nancy Kington, and her former plantation slave, Minerva Sharpe-take to the high seas from Jamaica on a shop the crew renames Deliverance. It is the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men sail the high seas finding adventure, danger, and gold. ![]()
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