Drowning Days
by Muriel Ellis Pritchett
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Pub Date Mar 31 2022 | Archive Date Mar 30 2022
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Description
Luke is the coolest sixth grader at Benjamin Wright Middle School. Then his dad dies unexpectedly, leaving the family in debt and turning his world upside down.
Forced to move with his family to Grandma's house on Blackbeard Creek in the marsh, Luke must adjust to a strange, new life on the Georgia coast. In addition to the stress of being the new kid in school, Luke finds himself constantly teased and bullied by his mean cousin Buck.
Just when he thinks life can't get much worse, Luke almost drowns in the tidal creek, while mullet jumping on a cold, moonless night. Then, after getting into a fight with Buck on the school bus, their principal takes the two boys to his primitive island for the weekend to work out their issues.
Unfortunately, the boys and their principal get kidnapped for ransom by wild-hog-poaching pirates.
Knowing their families have no money to pay any amount of ransom, Luke and Buck declare a truce in order to escape Pirates Island and save themselves and their principal.
A Note From the Publisher
Muriel spent part of her honeymoon in Crescent, Georgia, with her new husband's coastal cousins. There on Blackbeard Creek, she learned to pick a crab for her dinner and went mullet jumping on a moonless night. She loves tidal creeks, the smell of the marsh, smoked mullet, throwing out a shrimp net, emptying a crab box, and sailing around Georgia's barrier islands.
Muriel and her husband enjoy traveling, eating good chocolate, and all things Disney.
Advance Praise
Southeastern Writers Association Hal Bernard Memorial Award for Novel
Southeastern Writers Association Hal Bernard Memorial Award for Novel
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781684339112 |
| PRICE | $4.99 (USD) |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 97771
What a fantastic survival book! When Luke’s dad dies, his family is forced to move to Georgia to live with their grandmother because they have no money. Unfortunately, there are two mean bullying cousins Butch and Buck that make the move even worse. When the principal of the school asks Luke and Buck to help him paint his house on a remote island for money, both boys reluctantly agree. Little do they realize what they’re in for. Wild hog poachers grab and tie up the principal. When the boys try to find where their principal went, they are bound and gagged and put in a shed. They hear the men say they will demand a ransom for them. What happens now? Will they be able to escape?
Reviewer 809189
Sweet coming of age story of middle schooler Luke having to cope with his fathers sudden death and move to his grandmothers and trying to fit in at a new school.
This was an easy read with some good moral lessons.
Thanks to NetGalley for allowing me to read this book.
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