When a marauding slave ship captures her sister, Melkorka, eight-year-old Brigid is lost at sea but survives, disguised as a boy, and sets out to rescue Melkorka. As the years pass she becomes a woman, reputed to be fierce enough to conquer a man, but desirous only of reuniting with her family.
Record details
ISBN:9781442483002 (hardback)
ISBN:1442483008 (hardback)
ISBN:9781442483026 (pbk.)
Physical Description:print x, 372 pages : map ; 20 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York :Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers,[2014]
Content descriptions
General Note:
Companion book to: Hush.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-372).