A gripping childrens story from War Horse author and formerChildren's LaureateMichael Morpurgo. We all knew what was going to happen. Wed seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did not come upright again. Life on the Scilly Isles in 1907 is bleak and full of hardship. Lauras twin brother, Billy, disappears, and then a storm devastates everything. It seems theres little hope. But then the Zanzibar is wrecked on the islands rocks, and everything changes The Wreck of the Zanzibar isa gripping historical adventure from the author of An Eagle in the Snow, Listen to the Moon, Shadow, and An Elephant in the Garden. Michael Morpurgois the master storytellerof such modern classic children's books as War Horse, Friend or Foe, Private Peaceful, and Kensuke's Kingdom. He has written more thanone hundredbooks for childrenand won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Childrens Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times.
This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book features in the following series: New Windmills Series, Temporeed Series .
This book has been graded for interest at 10-13 years.
There are 112 pages in this book.
It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.
This book was published in 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Michael Morpurgo has brought together poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Stevie Smith, John Lennon and Jo Shapcott.
This book contains the following story:
The Wreck of the Zanzibar
Laura Perryman lives on Bryher, one of the Scilly isles with her twin brother, Billy, and her mother and father and her Granny May. They have four milking cows, and of course, a fishing boat. Billy is fourteen years old and bored with the unending milking routine so when the General Lee, bound for New York, calls at St. Mary's for repairs to the mizzen mast Billy secures his passage as a cabin boy. He has left the islands before his parents know anything about it. Laura has lost her twin brother and is devastated. So are her parents. Then ill fortune besets the family, and a storm devastates everything on the island. Things seem hopeless until the Zanzibar is wrecked on the island's rocks, and suddenly everything changes . . .
