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Cast Off: The Strange Adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram Broen
312 pp.
| Dial |
May, 2015 |
TradeISBN 978-0-525-42856-5$16.99
(3)
4-6
This seventeenth-century seafaring adventure unites Petra and Bram, a wealthy merchant's daughter and a mixed-race carpenter's son, and thrusts them into a mutinous crew of sailors. Through alternating points of view, Yohalem unfurls a thrilling and meticulously researched adventure. Her facts never outweigh her fiction, and both Petra and Bram are kids with compelling, and sometimes heartbreaking, family stories.