I really liked this book! I am a big fan of books in this genre, I love the idea of kids getting into these big adventures...this one was not disappointing! Pirates and treasure and true love- sigh. The only thing I will warn you about is there is quite a bit of violence contained in these pages,...
A delightful swashbuckling adventure from first-time author, Geoff Rodkey! Egg is a 13-year-old boy who lives on a tiny, rocky island named Deadweather. He is surrounded by siblings who hate him, a neglectful father, and a bunch of retired pirates who work his father’s plantation. When his father...
I found this book just a little too freaky to actually give a rating to, because Geoff Rodkey seems to have *exactly* the same writing style as me. Seriously. Just about every sentence is exactly the way I would have written it. By the end, I was starting to wonder if I was Rodkey.So, yeah, I'm n...
It was so steep that moving fast was easy. The hard part was staying on my feet. Trees and branches and roots and holes zoomed by in a blur. FASTER. One wrong step, and I’d break an ankle. That wouldn’t be the worst of it. If I fell, they’d catch me. I could hear branches snapping behind me. The ...
YOU’RE the only one who can do it!!” Millicent had me backed up against a wall. Literally. We were in a narrow alley about a hundred feet up the street from the jail. She wasn’t begging in a flirty way. She was too desperate for that. And I was glad...