Title: Water Rat
First published: 1998
Description: In 1748 fourteen-year-old Matt, orphaned, crippled, teased by other boys and abused by the man he works for, seeks refuge with a surgeon's family and finds that he is well-equipped to help protect them from pirates on Delaware Bay.
Subjects: Pirates, Adventure and adventurers, Orphans, Fiction, People with disabilities, Heroes, History
Places: Delaware Bay (Del. and N.J.)
Time periods: Colonial period, 1600-1775
LC classification: PZ7.L15843 Wat 1998