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“The Castaways leaves readers breathless.”—School Library Journal
The spirited adventure that began in The Convicts and continued in The Cannibals has its riveting conclusion in The Castaways—in which Tom Tin and his four convict companions save two sailors stranded on an iceberg. There’s Mr. Beezley, with his tattooed hands and icy stare; and Mr. Moyle, with his pig-like face and rotten teeth, who supposedly eats children. As Tom grows wary of the men, he suspects they are plotting to get rid of him. But
how? And if Tom and the other boys can’t stop the sailors, will they ever make it home to England, where Tom’s diamond remains buried, and where he still stands a chance of sorting out his tangled fate?
“The quirky characters and an incredible story with fast action will keep you turning the pages to see what happens next, complete with a very satisfying, surprise ending.”—MyShelf.com
- Sales Rank: #471137 in Books
- Published on: 2009-08-11
- Released on: 2009-08-11
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.86" h x .70" w x 4.35" l, .25 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 256 pages
About the Author
Iain Lawrence is the author of numerous acclaimed novels, including The Cannibals, The Convicts, Gemini Summer, B for Buster, The Lightkeeper's Daughter, Lord of the Nutcracker Men, Ghost Boy, and the High Seas Trilogy: The Wreckers, The Smugglers, and The Buccaneers. He lives on Gabriola Island, British Columbia.
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ALL AT SEA
We steamed along below the stars, half a thousand miles from land. All I could see were the dim shapes of the boys, and the hulk of the engine in the middle of the boat. But up from the bow flew splashes of green, like emeralds sliced from the black sea. In our wake they lay scattered, swirled by the churning of our paddle wheel.
All night I listened to the chant of the steam engine, the chuckatee-chickadee, chuckatee-chickadee that shook every plank and every nail. When the sun came up behind us, our smoke hung over the sea like a greasy pennant streaming from the funnel, a tattered flag that could be seen for many miles. So Gaskin Boggis pulled the fire from its box, dousing each stick over the side with a hissing gout of steam.
Through eleven nights we'd bored through the blackness; through eleven days we'd drifted on a blazing sea. On this morning, our twelfth since we'd last seen land, it was Walter Weedle's turn to stand watch, to keep a lookout for the black sails of the Borneo pirates. As usual, he went grumbling to his place atop the dwindling pile of firewood.
"There's some what never take a turn," he said, with a dark look in my direction. "Should be turn and turnabout, that's what I say."
Only Midgely bothered to argue. "No one minds what you say, Walter Weedle. You can hop it, you can."
Weedle's clumsy feet knocked the logs askew. "There ain't no pirates. We ain't seen a pirate yet. Don't know why we have to stop at dawn."
"'Cause you're a half-wit," cried Midgely. In his blindness he was squinting toward the engine, mistaking its shape for Weedle. "Try steering by the sun, and you'll go in circles, you stupid. But the stars is like a compass, and that Southern Cross is the needle. Ain't that so, Tom?"
"Yes," I said.
"It's going to lead us home. Ain't it, Tom?"
"Of course," I said, as though I actually believed him. Midge thought the Southern Cross hung in the sky like a painted sign. He didn't know how strange and pale a thing it was, so hard to find that I wasn't certain I had ever really seen it. I feared we were already lost.
"Tell him about them other islands, Tom," said Midgely. "Tell him how the Cross will take us there." He rattled off their names again, the Cocos, the Chagos, the Mascarenes. "We can't miss 'em, can we? We'll hop from one to the other like on skipping stones."
He was smiling now, proud as Punch of this notion of his. He had made it sound so simple that we'd all believed it was possible. We had tackled the oceans as only boys might dare to do, chasing the Southern Cross toward islands rich with food and firewood. But now, if we didn't find land within the week, we would have no water left to drink, no food to eat, no wood to burn.
The sea was too huge, the sun too hot. I felt like a candle melting away. Weedle and Boggis and Benjamin Penny were as brown as old figs, while poor Midgely--red and peeling--looked like a lobster boiled in his skin.
He was taking shelter now as the sun climbed over the bow. He tucked himself into the shade of a sea turtle's shell, the last remains of a beast we had slaughtered ten days before. It was nearly as long as Midge was tall, and the boy peered out from one end like the turtle itself.
His eyes were gray, almost covered by his drooping lids. It seemed at times he had no eyes, when all I could see were the darkened crescents below his lashes. But he still smiled in his cheerful fashion. "All's bob, Tom," he said. "We'll reach them islands tomorrow, I think."
I didn't understand how he could never lose hope. I felt like flinging myself down in the kicking tantrum of a child, screaming about the unfairness of it all. I was the owner of a fabulous jewel, of a wealth beyond imagining. I had only to get home to London to claim it. But the Fates, it seemed, would never allow me that.
As I settled down beside Midgely, my thoughts ran their endless circle, beginning--as always--with the notion that I was cursed by the Jolly Stone. I believed absolutely that it brought ruin to all who touched it, and I vowed that I would one day unearth the jewel from its London grave just to pass on the curse to Mr. Goodfellow. I imagined with great pleasure how his greedy eyes would glow when I put the stone into his butter-soft hands.
Then, as always, doubts leapt in to chase this thought. How could a simple stone, a thing of the earth, carry such unearthly power? Wasn't Mr. Goodfellow really to blame? It was he who had sent my father to debtors' prison, and me to the South Seas in the hold of a convict ship. Give the diamond to him? Hardly! I would keep the stone for myself, and use its wealth to crush the man like a cockroach.
But what if the Stone were cursed, I wondered; and round I went again.
I could sometimes spend hours thinking in circles. But today I had only begun when the boat suddenly rocked, and my head banged against its ribs. Benjamin Penny shouted, "Watch where you're going, you great oaf!" Gaskin Boggis was moving to his place beside the engine. That was where he always slept, nestled with the machinery. To him it must have been like a favorite old dog, a friend to be fed and watered by night, to be petted through the day.
I tried to find a bit of shade behind Midgely's turtle shell. But with each roll of the boat, sunlight flashed across my face.
I lay on planks that were, at most, an inch in thickness. On their other side was water so deep that it made me dizzy to think of it. What manner of things lurked down there?
With the engine silenced, I could hear the slop of water beneath the boat. My horrors paraded in my mind: man-eating fishes; serpents and leviathans; storm and tempest; and every man who'd ever drowned. Of them all, this last fear was my greatest. The splash against the planks became the thrashing of lost sailors swimming up behind us. Every scratch and tap of wood was the sound of their fingers feeling at the boat, and I dared not lift my head lest I see them reaching for the gunwale.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Images come alive with colorful language
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We come upon Tom Tin and his companions 11 days after leaving the islands of the cannibals. Not a true sailor, Tom is the son of one and is steering a ramshackle steamboat west in hopes of being rescued by a British ship and taken home to England. He plans to right the wrongs done to his family by the money-hungry Mr. Goodfellow, who got him and his father, Captain Redman Tin, into this mess. When you owe Goodfellow money, your life becomes a living hell.
Tom views the world as a river of fate, full of both good and bad luck. Maybe if he hadn't gotten his hands on the wretched Jolly Stone diamond in England, none of this would have happened. Tom thinks debtor's prison, murder, prison ships, creatures and cannibals are all because of the Jolly Stone curse. He thought it would solve everything for his family, but one nightmare after another has cluttered his river of fate until he doesn't know if he has the wherewithal to make it right. However, his father's last words roll over and over in his mind while he listens to the "chant of the steam engine, the chuckatee-chickadee, chuckatee-chickadee that shook every plank and nail."
"Do what's right by me, Tom. Do the handsome thing." Redman Tin's voice whispered in his son's ears. But Tom doesn't have any idea what the right or handsome thing might be. He only knows that he has to get back to London, pass the Jolly Stone on and end the curse. Mr. Goodfellow is the perfect person to hand the blasted thing over to.
Joining Tom are fellow boy-convicts who have been with him since the prison ship, the Lachesis, left England bound for the Australian penal colonies. Benjamin Penny, Gaskin Boggis, Walter Weedle and blind boy William Midgely follow Tom, sometimes begrudgingly, as he tries to get them home. As rapscallions often do, they constantly fight, argue and complain.
Superstitions about the sea add poison to the mix. When they come upon an abandoned ship, they think it is the Flying Dutchman, which sails the seas of its own accord and gathers up dead sailors. They have to board the lonely vessel because their own rickety steamboat is sinking. This provides another twist in Tom's fateful river when he gets tangled even deeper in the sordid affairs of Mr. Goodfellow.
Turning the pages of THE CASTAWAYS --- the final book in the Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy --- is irresistible as every chapter ends on a curious note. Tension builds like a slow-burning ember in the first half, and then the story tumbles head first into one adventure, surprise turn and scare after another. Iain Lawrence's skillful use of simile and metaphor helps story images come alive with colorful language, and young sailors will enjoy the genuine use of nautical terms. Time-period phrases like "toad licker," "nob," "smasher," "lumps" and "toff" add a brilliant flair of authenticity to the escapades.
--- Reviewed by Joy Held
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By TeensReadToo
THE CASTAWAYS is the third book of the trilogy including The Convicts and The Cannibals: The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy, Book II (The Curse of the Jolly Stone Trilogy), and starts off with Tom Tin and his companions adrift at sea. They have escaped the punishment of being sent to Australia as convicts only to find themselves aboard a steamship that is running dangerously low on fuel and with no idea of where they are. They find a ship that is apparently deserted. Fearing that it may be the ghost ship Flying Dutchman, they clamber aboard anyway, perhaps on a course toward certain doom.
Then they locate two men stranded on an iceberg, and take them on board, but when Tom hears them plotting to get rid of him, he is just sure that they are castaways from the very ship they are on, and probably have killed all of the previous crew members.
In a riotous episode, the castaways take Tom and his companions prisoner and prepare to sell them as slaves. Tom and the kids manage to escape that fate and sail to England, where they meet with more adversity and imprisonment.
My only complaint with THE CASTAWAYS is that there are a number of references to episodes that happened in the previous two books, and if you haven't read them, you must use your imagination to get you up to speed on the story line.
A rollicking, fast-moving adventure that melds neatly with the facts of early shipping, pirates, the slave trade, and transporting convicts to Australia. There are characters you will love and a story that keeps you turning the pages to see what happens next, complete with a very satisfying, surprise ending.
Reviewed by: Grandma Bev
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A great read for Grandma too.
By Christina Giulianotti
I inadvertantly picked up this up from the library as an audio book to listen to as I drive around and it wasn't until I came to the end of the 1st chapter that I finally looked at the lable on the cover and realised it was a "Young Adult" book. It is a great story and I wish I could get all three in the series on tape - first for me to listen to and then to pass on to my grand children - I know they would love them. Unfortunatley, only the last one has been done in audio and it is not available at this time
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