Henry,
Holt and Company
March 2011
$16.95 US
145p hc
ISBN:
978-0805092400
Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck
Margarita Engle
from the book...
Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea
for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado—half
islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain
Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate
the worlds and words between his mother’s Taíno Indian language and his
father’s Spanish.
But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado
who escapes to safety. He learns how to live on land again, among
people who treat him well. And it is he who must decide the fate of his
former captors.
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