INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Lawrence, Iain

The Wreckers

(1) 4-6 In 1799 fourteen-year-old John Spencer survives a shipwreck on the coast of Cornwall. To his horror, he soon learns that the villagers are not rescuers, but pirates who lure ships ashore in order to plunder their cargoes. Introducing the conflict swiftly and dramatically, Lawrence creates an edge-of-the-chair survival/mystery story. Fast-moving, mesmerizing, this is a tale in the grand tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson and Leon Garfield.

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