The Left-Handed Fate / Kate Milford ; illustrated by Eliza Wheeler.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: 372 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780805098006
- 0805098003
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | Milford Kate | Available | 33111008457117 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Return to Nagspeake for a new fantasy adventure from the bestselling author of National Book Award nominee Greenglass House .
Lucy Bluecrowne and Maxwell Ault are on a mission: find the three pieces of a strange and arcane engine they believe can stop the endless war raging between their home country of England and Napoleon Bonaparte's France. During the search, however, their ship, the famous privateer the Left-Handed Fate , is taken by the Americans, who have just declared war on England, too. The Fate (and with it, Lucy and Max) is put under the command of new midshipman Oliver Dexter . . . who's only just turned twelve.
But Lucy and Max aren't the only ones trying to assemble the engine; the French are after it, as well as the crew of a mysterious vessel that seems able to appear out of thin air. When Oliver discovers what his prisoners are really up to--and how dangerous the device could be if it falls into the wrong hands--he is faced with a choice: Help Lucy and Max even if it makes him a traitor to his own country? Or follow orders and risk endangering countless lives, including those of the enemies who have somehow become his friends?
"A quest story to find the three pieces of a magical engine which can either win the War of 1812 ... or stop it altogether"-- Provided by publisher.