Sparrowhawk, Book One: Jack Frake
by By Cline, Edward
Category: Fiction , Historical

Beginning in 1740s England, follows Jack Frake, an independently-minded 10-year-old-boy, as he runs away from home after the murder of his tutor, falls in with a band of smugglers who rob the government and give to themselves and poor, and sets off for the American colonies aboard the ship Sparrowhawk.