The Giant Rat of Sumatra, or Pirates Galore

When the daring Giant Rat of Sumatra drops anchor in San Diego, twelve-year-old cabin boy Shipwreck only wants to begin his long journey home to Boston. Instead he encounters:

• snarling mutineers
• barefoot bandits
• hairbreadth escapes
• duels
• cunning barkeeps
• simmering revenge
• secret identities
• scrappy orphans
• betrayals
• lost loves
• old enemies
• new villains
• heroic last stands

and razzle-dazzle treasure so well hidden that only someone as quick and clever as Shipwreck could keep up with it.

Plucked from the sea by the most notorious pirate in the Pacific, Shipwreck discovers his adventure is only beginning.