Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck (Pura

Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck (Pura Belpre Honor Books - Author (Narrative))

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 quebradoâ€•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 TaÃno 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. Latino interest.
Country USA
Brand Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Manufacturer Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber FBA-|283759
ReleaseDate 2011-03-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780805092400

Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck (Pura Belpre Honor Books - Author (Narrative))