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Wreck of the Zanzibar


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In 1907, fourteen-year-old Laura, living with her family on one of the stormy Isles of Scilly, records in her diary how her dream of participating in a shipwreck rescue is finally realized.

 

There are 124 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Egmont UK Ltd .

Christian Birmingham graduated in illustration from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1991, and is one of the most talented artists of his generation. 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 . . .

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

Whitbread Book Award
This book was recognised by the Whitbread Book Award.

Children's Book Award
This book was recognised by the Children's Book Award.

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