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344 pp.
| Simon |
November, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4424-6855-9$15.99
(4)
4-6
In The Dagger Quick, twelve-year-old Kitto left seventeenth-century England for the high seas. Now stranded on an island, Kitto meets strangers whose pasts relate to each other and to his own, including pirate X and escaped Wampanoag slave girl Ontoquas. Clear characterization affords accessibility to this coincidence-heavy sequel, which balances its caring figures with callous, murderous ones. Glos.