Steel

“This unique story should have broad appeal.” Informationen zum Autor Carrie Vaughn survived her air force brat childhood and managed to put down roots in Colorado. Her first book, Kitty and the Midnight Hour , launched a popular series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk-radio advice show. She is also the author of Voices of Dragons , her debut novel for teen readers. Ms. Vaughn lives in Colorado. Zusammenfassung It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her. This was the tip of a rapier. Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure. The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. But a pirate's life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home—one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain. Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.

Product details

• Authors: Carrie Vaughn
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 13
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2011
• EAN: 9780061547911
• ISBN: 978-0-06-154791-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Girls & Women *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Romance / Paranormal *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Action & Adventure / Pirates *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / Historical *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Historical / General *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Science Fiction / Time Travel, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / Contemporary *, YOUNG ADULT FICTION: Fantasy / Romance, maybe;sf;fencing;standalone