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Peachtree Publishers
September 2011
On Sale: September 1, 2011
192 pages
ISBN: 1561455970
EAN: 9781561455973
Hardcover
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Young Adult Adventure
New Bedford, Mass. 1851. As the son of the famous Black Jack
Valera, the best whaler on the eastern seaboard,
thirteen-year-old Lucky Valera has led a charmed and happy
life at sea. Following his father's death, Lucky is suddenly kidnapped
and pressed into a life of servitude by Fernando Fortuna,
his cruel and embittered half brother. Fortuna immediately
puts Lucky to work in a grueling textile mill and
confiscates the boy's wages. But when Lucky meets Emmeline, a spirited girl with
abolitionist sympathies, and Daniel, a fugitive slave from
the South, his dream for a return to his old life of freedom
and the sea seems to be within reach.That is, if he and his
new friends can outwit and outrun Fortuna and an enraged
slave trader, both of whom will stop at nothing to get back
what they believeis their rightful property.
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