[LM_NET] BOOK: The Giant Rat of Sumatr by Fleischman

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@YAHOO.COM>]

Fleischman, Sid. The Giant Rat of Sumatra or Pirates Galore. 
Greenwillow/HarperCollins, 2005 [0-06-074238-0]
  It is 1846 and a 12-year-old boy is pulled from the sea by pirates and is 
nicknamed, Shipwreck.  The ship lands on the California coast in what is still 
Mexico.  His pirate captain buys land and sets up his ranch and since the US is at 
war with Mexico, Shipwreck (from Boston) must hide the fact that he is American.  
Now Shipwreck is stuck there and gets involved in mutineers, outlaws, old enemies 
and former friends of the captain.  This 194 page book is written in the same 
adventure and fun spirit as Fleischman's other books.  A note at the end of the 
book explains that this book is the last in a trilogy which started with "By the 
Great Horn Spoon."


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Halsted Middle School (Grades 6-8)
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Newton, NJ  07860

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