The twenty-third of September, 1716. I write this on my last day at home.
Tomorrow I am to join my Uncle Will aboard his ship and become A SAILOR. Will
has told me of sea monsters and mermaids and has sailed through a hurricane.
Maybe I shall see these things FOR MYSELF! Nine-year-old Jake Carpenter does
indeed see all this and more, when his ship, the Greyhound, is captured by
pirates and he embarks on an exciting new life on the wrong side of the law.
Follow his adventures in this swashbuckling account of pirate life, by the
creators of the acclaimed Castle Diary.

Review
* Gory and glorious fiction underpinned by facts in a rip-roaring yarn by
Richard Platt, sumptuously illustrated by Chris Riddell. Sunday Times

The swashbuckling adventures of Jake Carpenter, cabin boy.