Plundering Paradise

Nathan loves pirates - his days are spent dreaming about them and wondering what it would be like to be one. Anything to brighten up his grey and dreary existence. So when Tamo White, the son of a real-life pirate, suggests that Nathan go home with him to Madagascar, it is too good a chance to miss. There's just one problem ...Nathan's sister, Maud. He can't leave her behind but will she really be able to survive in a strange land full of pirates? You never know - perhaps she'll adapt better than Nathan, or even she herself, could ever have imagined ...Plundering Paradise will whisk you away to a distant land and fill your senses with amazing sights, sounds and beautiful colours. You will feel as though you've really visited Madagascar and have lived among the pirates and the islanders. This must be the finest adventure story for years...A brilliant read. The Guardian McCaughrean has the gift of making remote times and places unfold as if before the reader's very eyes...what a novelist! The Independent Told with swashbuckling bravado that leaves you laughing and breathless Times Educational Supplement This swashbuckling adventure is not to be missed! The Daily Telegraph A superb adventure story - the literary equivalent of a good all-action movie. Good Housekeeping