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Plundering Paradise


School year: Year 5, Year 6, Year 7

No. of pages 256

Published: 2007

Great for age 9-12 years

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Nathan loves pirates - his days are spent dreaming about them and wondering what it would be like to be one. Anything to brighten up his grey and dreary existence. So when Tamo White, the son of a real-life pirate, suggests that Nathan go home with him to Madagascar, it is too good a chance to miss. There's just one problem ...Nathan's sister, Maud. He can't leave her behind but will she really be able to survive in a strange land full of pirates? You never know - perhaps she'll adapt better than Nathan, or even she herself, could ever have imagined ...Plundering Paradise will whisk you away to a distant land and fill your senses with amazing sights, sounds and beautiful colours. You will feel as though you've really visited Madagascar and have lived among the pirates and the islanders.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press .

Geraldine McCaughrean is the author of The Odyssey and other titles in the acclaimed Oxford Illustrated Classics series.

 

This book contains the following story:

Plundering Paradise
Nathan loves pirates - his days are spent dreaming about them and wondering what it would be like to be one. Anything to brighten up his grey and dreary existence. So when Tamo White, the son of a real-life pirate, suggests that Nathan go home with him to Madagascar, it is too good a chance to miss. There's just one problem . . . Nathan's sister, Maud. He can't leave her behind but will she really be able to survive in a strange land full of pirates? You never know - perhaps she'll adapt better than Nathan, or even she herself, could ever have imagined . . .

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

Smarties Book Award - Ages 9-11 Years
This book was recognised in the Ages 9-11 Years category by the Smarties Book Award.

Whitbread Book Award
This book was recognised by the Whitbread Book Award.

Smarties Book Award
This book was recognised by the Smarties Book Award.

This must be the finest adventure story for years...A brilliant read. The Guardian McCaughrean has the gift of making remote times and places unfold as if before the reader's very eyes...what a novelist! The Independent Told with swashbuckling bravado that leaves you laughing and breathless Times Educational Supplement This swashbuckling adventure is not to be missed! The Daily Telegraph A superb adventure story - the literary equivalent of a good all-action movie. Good Housekeeping