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Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

by Margarita Engle

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Published
2011
Genre
Poetry
Pages
160
Words
8642

Reading measures

Accelerated Reader level
6.6
AR interest level
MG+ — upper middle grades, 6–8
Lexile
1170L
Suggested reading age
ages 12–17

Quebrado has been a slave on Captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village.

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ISBN

ISBN-13
9780805092400
ISBN-10
0805092404

Tags

ALSC NotablesCaribbeanDisasters-ShipwrecksHistory-SlaveryNatural Environments-Oceans/SeasPeople-Enslaved PeoplePiratesPoetry