[LM_NET] BOOK: Captain Hook by Hart

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@YAHOO.COM>]

Hart, J.V. Capt. Hook. HarperCollins, 2005 [0-06-000220-4]
  James, the Illegitimate son of a member of Parliament, is enrolled in Eton much 
to the anger of all the royal children there.  He is a loner and has a pet spider.  
One upper class-man is out to get James.  This early part of the book has the feel 
of Harry Potter and Hogwarts.  Unfortunately James and an Ottoman Sultana fall in 
love much to the anger of the Queen of England. He dreams of a place called 
Neverland.  When the Sultana is shipped away from England James and his friend 
stowaway on the ship.  Then this book becomes a sailing story.  Life on the ship is 
harsh and especially evil near the end when James, dubbed Capt. James leads a 
mutiny on the ship and ends up being voted captain of the ship after he kills the 
captain of the ship with a hook.  While I think this 337 is a complete book, it 
does leave the possibility for another one.  Please not that his book is not a 
cutsey Peter Pan book.  It contains, duels, death, murder,  slavery, harsh life on 
a ship so I
 would not recommend it to elementary students.  This is the author's first book 
but he has written screen plays one of which was "Hook."  The illustrations are 
done by Brett Helquist of Lemony Snicket fame.


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