Review: What a wild sail!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2013
I had to read the last two-thirds of the book in one setting for I just couldn't put this exciting teen adventure down. I needed to find out how it all ends and if the young ghost hunters made it home okay.Erik Burks' life spirals out of control when his mom moves him to South Carolina because of his dad's infidelity. Life just sucks for thirteen year-old Eric with no Dad, no baseball, and no friends. All he could think of is how fast he can get his mom back to Texas and his dad, when he meets the most unusual twins ever. Not only are their names weird: Starry and Stormy Knight, but Starry actually reads minds (a very annoying fact as Erik finds out) and her brother is pirate-obsessed. Against his will (for there are not ghosts), they take him on a wild ghost adventure that might even solve his problem of returning home to Texas.`A Pirate, a Blockade Runner, and a Cat' has something of everything for teens that like action, mystery, pirates, and real ghosts. I love the fact how Beverly Stowe McClure has very cleverly inserted nautical and pirate facts in her story that at the same time reflect Eric's inner chaos of his father's betrayal and his longing for his old life while being presented with the most electrifying new life which even offers some of the comforts of the old, like baseball.I wish we had such an exciting book when we learned about seafaring time in school!