Title: Cast off
Description: Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-olds Petra, who escaped her abusive father's Amsterdam house in 1663, and Bram, a half-Javanese/half-Dutch boy, relate their adventures at sea after Petra stows away and Bram, son of the ship's carpenter, helps her disguise herself as a boy.
Subjects: Runaways, Disguise, Child abuse, Sea stories, Juvenile fiction, Seafaring life, Fiction, Sex role, Racially mixed people, Literature and fiction, juvenile, Sex role, fiction, Racially mixed people, fiction, Runaways, fiction, Child abuse, fiction