INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Frederick, Heather Vogel

The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed

(2) 4-6 After her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Patience abandons her dream of studying mathematics to spend the next couple of years with her captain father on a whaling ship. When part of the crew mutinies and deposits the captain on an isolated island, Patience must use her mathematical skills to find him. Patience's hard work and determination help create a believable historical figure.

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