School for Scoundrels - The Lost Map of the Prows

When a message in a bottle washes up in the harbour at the end of the summer holidays, little does Thomas Prow realise how much his ordinary life is about to change.

Summoned by the mysterious Captain Ginger from the School for Scoundrels, to attend a school for pirate youths, Thom is reluctant to leave his grandparents, childhood home and friends.

However, Thom is forced to leave the seaside town in which he has grown up, when his grandfather is kidnapped by pirates and a ransom set: either hand over the treasure map – or else grandpa gets it.

Unable to tell them where the map is, Thom sets sail with the School for Scoundrels and goes in search of his grandfather, a different education and the lost treasure map of his ancestors.