Ghosts of the Pacific (Submarine Outlaw)
"[Ghosts of the Pacific] will capture the heart of any explorer, environmentalist, adventurer or history buff. A must for any classroom library, and a real treat for the avid readers in your school!" -Canadian Teacher Magazine"Roy's writing keeps getting better and better.Ghosts of the Pacificis a page-turning adventure with depth. Roy...has a brilliant plot device with which to work. Alfred is a thoughtful, practical, sympathetic narrator. The book is packed with information--geographical, historical, political--but it never feels didactic....an excellent series to have in the classroom. Suspenseful, exciting, thought-provoking and fun...for any age. Highly recommended!" -CM (Canadian Review of Materials) Magazine"This is an award-winning series that will appeal to young readers, particularly boys who are drawn to adventure stories....Readers who follow the entire series will see real growth in Alfred as a character --from a single-minded fourteen-year-old who just wants to explore to a sixteen-year-old world traveler who has learned the beauty and dangers of the sea, witnessed firsthand man's destruction of the oceans, and pledges to do something about it by becoming an environmentalist." --VOYA Magazine"Like a great adventure,Ghosts of the Pacificdoes not allow the reader the opportunity to be distracted or bored....The plot is relentless, always enriched with unexpected subplots, steeped in a multifaceted landscape of cold and warmth, hardness and softness." --CanLit for Little Canadians"[Ghosts of the Pacific] will draw in boys as well as girls, and perhaps even reluctant readers as Roy's writing is clean and simple while the story is gripping and full of adventure." --Resource Links