The Dagger Quick (The Dagger Chronicles)

Eames, Brian

ISBN 10: 1442483687 / ISBN 13: 9781442483682

Published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books (edition Reprint), 2013

About this Item

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 1442483687-8-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dagger Quick (The Dagger Chronicles)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books (edition Reprint)
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1442483687
• ISBN 13: 9781442483682
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

It’s the pirate’s life for Kitto in this “exciting and richly detailed historical swashbuckler” (Publishers Weekly).

Twelve-year-old Christopher, aka Kitto, is seemingly doomed to follow in the footsteps of his father as a barrel-maker in seventeenth-century England, especially because of his clubfoot. Yet Kitto longs for more. And after his father is murdered and his stepmother and brother are kidnapped, he has no choice but to set off on a dangerous seafaring voyage with bounty hunters on his trail and his sole ally an uncle he hardly knows; an uncle who is an infamous pirate and the only man ever crazy enough to steal from the equally infamous Governor of Jamaica…

A lively narrative School Library Journal calls “fast-paced, well-developed, and historically accurate…this coming-of-age quest is perfect for landlubbers and pirate aficionados alike.”

About the Author

Brian Eames has taught for fifteen years at the Paideia School, a K–12 independent school in Atlanta. He read his first novel, The Dagger Quick, out loud to his class as he wrote it. Publishers Weekly called The Dagger Quick “thoroughly researched, fast-paced, and tense…embraces the mythical glamour of a pirate’s life.” He lives with his wife and children in Atlanta. Visit him at TheDaggerQuick.com.