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    The Pirate Who's Afraid of Everything

    The Pirate Who's Afraid of Everything

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    by Annabeth Bondor-Stone, Anthony Holden (Illustrator), Connor White

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      ISBN-13: 9780062313881
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Publication date: 02/24/2015
    • Series: Shivers! , #1
    • Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 192
    • File size: 8 MB
    • Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

    Annabeth Bondor-Stone is the coauthor of Time Tracers and the Shivers the Pirate series. She is a producer for the Story Pirates and a mentor with WriteGirl, an organization that empowers teen girls through creative writing. Her plays have been produced in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Louisville.


    Connor White is the coauthor of Time Tracers and the Shivers the Pirate series. When he is not writing books, Connor is a director and producer for the Story Pirates, an arts organization that teaches kids creative writing, then turns their stories into a sketch comedy show.

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    Recommended for summer reading by The Huffington Post!

    "When Shivers sets sail, adventure—and laughs—abound."—Tom Watson, author of the Stick Dog series

    Meet Shivers, the scaredy-est pirate to ever sail the Seven Seas. Along with his best friend, Margo, and his loyal fishmate, Albee, Shivers battles a giant squid, discovers hidden treasures, and gets pooped on by a pigeon to save his parents from the clutches of evil. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never eat snails again. So put on your pantaloons, batten down the hatches, and join Shivers on his first (but still very dangerous) adventure.

    Comic book–like illustrations in each chapter bring Shivers to life and invite even the most reluctant readers to join the adventure.

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    School Library Journal
    11/01/2014
    Gr 3–6—Shivers, 11, is a pirate who is afraid of everything, including the sea, so he spends his days in a parked ship next to a snack shop on a New Jersey beach. Meanwhile, his mother, Tilda the Tormentor; his father, Bob; and his brave brother, Brock, set sail on missions on the Eastern seas. When Shivers gets the news that they have been captured, he realizes that he alone can rescue them. The young pirate finds courage in his new best friend, Margo, and his first mate Albee (a fish). Together, they battle evil to save his family and find the elusive Treasure Torch ("the most famous booty this side of Neptune's nostrils"). This is a quick read with black-and-white cartoons appearing throughout the story. A witty novel with important messages about courage.—Gwen Collier, Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, NY
    Kirkus Reviews
    2014-11-04
    Get ready for a breathlessly paced pirate adventure starring Shivers, who is terrified of just about everything. The fearful 11-year-old, the youngest in his family of pirates, begins the story with an overreaction to his beeping alarm clock. The liberal use of capitalized dialogue ("LOAD THE CANNONS! SWAB THE POOP DECK!") makes it clear that Shivers is easily freaked out. When a carrier pigeon delivers a plea for help from his parents, he goes to the police station for some help. Good thing spunky Margo, two years his junior and the police chief's daughter, is craving some true adventure. The unlikely duo sets sail and encounters colorful characters. Here the authors' language often impresses with its rich and humorous descriptions: "In a deep voice that sounded like pancake syrup dripping down a jagged rock, he bellowed, ‘…I am Captain Pokes-You-in-the-Eye!' " Man-eating sharks, a giant squid and a villain with a passion for mustard are all part of the over-the-top journey. Cartoonish illustrations in black and white by Holden further emphasize the crazy antics that rapidly move the characters on until their heroic climb of the Statue of Liberty and one final, colossal panic attack that brings the slapstick story to a tidy conclusion. While the premise is initially hard to accept given its pure ridiculousness, fans of Captain Underpants and the Wimpy Kid may find Shivers more hilarious than overwrought. (Fiction. 8-11)

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