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Rating: - Outstanding read for all ages!!!
This story was filled with adventure and character traits often missing in today's society. It will thrill you and take you back to the childhood fantasy of your youth. Loved it!!!

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Rating: - Riveting
Here's an adventure tale that will keep you turning the pages long after your bedtime, maneuvering with young Nicholas McIver through treacherous waters off the coast of England in 1939 and 1805. Even when our hero and his endearing little sister are enveloped in a pea soup fog, the narrative is crisp and clear. While other maritime adventures get tangled in creaking verbosity, here the taut lines sing. The clarity of the prose makes this complex plot accessible even to reluctant readers. Chapters leave you dangling from the yardarms straining for a glimpse of what comes next. The squeamish might cringe at some details in the battle scenes, but those few gruesome images quickly give way to the triumph of good over evil. Add this finely crafted adventure yarn to your list of books for pre-teens and middle schoolers. It's good, clean fun for grown-ups too.
Janet Gingold
author of Finch Goes Wild

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Rating: - Excellent for 9 and up!
I started reading this to my boys at bed time. The first night, I stopped after 2 chapters and said good night. I came back in their room a little later to find my 9yr old had picked up where I left off! This book will give your pre-teens a hero that they can relate to.

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Rating: - SWEPT AWAY IN THE PAGES -- GREAT FOR KIDS!
What a fabulous book for young boys and girls (9-15) and adults too! I gave this book to my grandson for summer reading, and he really doesn't like to read. But this book has captured his imagination. When he puts it down, I pick it up and read a few chapters ahead so I can encourage him with little hints of what's to come. Believe me, the book is fascinating reading for kids and adults. Without preaching, it teaches respect, self confidence, courage, and a whole lot of wonderful history too. You will not be disappointed in this book. I hope Ted Bells writes many more like it!