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| Genre/Form: | Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Julia Golding |
| ISBN: | 9781596434455 1596434457 |
| OCLC Number: | 664322771 |
| Notes: | Includes glossary of terms in back of book. |
| Description: | 379 p. : maps ; 19 cm. |
| Series Title: | Cat Royal adventure |
| Other Titles: | Cat of nine tails |
| Responsibility: | by Julia Golding. |
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Cat's adventures at sea
Cat Royal's friend Syd has disappeared, so she and her friends go to London to find out what happened to him and along the way get press-ganged into becoming part of the crew of a British naval vessel in late 1791. Turns out...
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Cat Royal's friend Syd has disappeared, so she and her friends go to London to find out what happened to him and along the way get press-ganged into becoming part of the crew of a British naval vessel in late 1791. Turns out someone paid the press gang to ambush them specifically, and getting home will be harder than they thought.
I accidentally read this one before #3, and maybe that makes a bit of a difference? The story is enjoyable, if somewhat improbable. What makes it three stars instead of four is that I immediately figured out the mystery of who paid off the press gang, and there wasn't much in the way of character development.
There was a little more violence in this one than in the first two, although it was certainly realistic and not graphic. There was also a smidgen more teen angst.
For readers' advisors: story and setting doorways.
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