Seal boy
By: Ken Catran
Publisher: Random House New Zealand
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Auckland [N.Z.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9781869416119
Subjects: Whaling; Fiction; Adventure stories; Survival; Shanghaiing; Adventure and adventurers
Description: Fourteen-year-old Emmett Tyler is the son of a wealthy banker and yearns to escape the stifling society of Boston and see the world. While exploring the docks he is shanghaied for a three-year voyage on a whaling ship, eventually finding himself abandoned in New Zealand where he must fight for his life. Suggested level: secondary.
Notes: Novel for young adults.