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Rees, Celia.
PIRATES! : THE TRUE AND REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF MINERVA SHARPE AND NANCY KINGTON, FEMALE PIRATES.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2003.
IL YA
ISBN 1582348162

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Nancy Kington has grown up in a wealthy family in eighteenth century England.  Her father is a successful businessman.  Nancy is secretly betrothed to young William who has set off to sea to earn his fortune.  But when her father dies, Nancy is sent to Jamaica to the family sugar plantation.  Here she becomes friends with Minerva, a slave.  When she learns that her brother plans to marry her off a cruel, ex-buccaneer, Nancy decides she needs to take control of her own life.  After rescuing Minerva from the vicious slave overseer, the two young women find themselves dressed in men's clothing and set out to sea.  Through a series of events, they find themselves aboard a pirate ship.  And now that is how they spend their days -- as pirates.   She knows that her beloved William will never be able to accept her for what she is now.  Based on the true story of women pirates, this novel gives you an insight to what life may have been like in the eighteenth century for the sea-faring men -- and women.

Booktalk #2

Did you see the movie Pirates of the Caribbean with Johnny Depp?  If you did, and you like romance, daring battles, and high seas adventure, you will really like reading Pirates! by Celia Rees!  Meet Nancy Kington, a sixteen-year-old, and discover her father’s promise to the wicked Bartholome.  Is this why Nancy and Minerva Sharpe, a Jamaican plantation slave, forged a friendship that led them to run away and become pirates?   Dive into the pages of this book to find out!  (Sandy Bailey,  South Carolina Book Awards, 2006)