Aaron Cutler Memorial Library

Pirates! by Celia Rees is the selection for Page Turners, a book group for tweens in grades 6-8.  Join the group on Thursday, October 13th @ 2:30PM for a snack, discussion and short activity.  Copies of the book are available in both the Teen area upstairs and the in the Young Readers' Room downstairs.

Transportation is available from the Litchfield Middle School via bus #3 at the normal dismissal time.

About the Book 
At the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men saidl the high seas finding adventure, danger and gold, two unusual girls, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, one a rich merchant's daughter, the other her plantation slave, set sail from Jamaica on a ship the crew renames Deliverance. Not just any trading ship, Deliverance flies black flags from its mast and proclaims to all that the new ship is a pirate vessel, sriking fear into the hearts of those she approaches. Or so they hope.

For Nancy, Deliverance is her escape from an arranged marriage with a controlling and devlish man. For Minerva, it is escape from slavery, as well as from the fearsome overseer on Nancy's family plantation. But in the end, the money, the adventure, the companionship and the chance to see the world not as women, but as fearsome pirates, is an opportunity neither can deny.

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