Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

by Margarita Engle

Book Overview

Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado--half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother's Ta no Indian language and his father's Spanish.

But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805092404
• ISBN13: 9780805092400
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary