Captain Grey

Young Kevin Cartwright is the prisoner of a pirate king. "I shall find a way to get free." "Free!" he shouted. "You are here, with us now. You can forget about your father and your sister, or anybody else you may have known. You belong to no nation but this nation. Put him back where he was and don't feed him. Tomorrow we shall talk again about freedom!" Following the Revolution, an eleven-year-old boy becomes the captive of a ruthless man who has set up his own "nation," supported by piracy, on a remote part of the New Jersey coast MY SISTER WAS BORN in the City of Philadelphia, as I was, she in the year 1770, I in 1772. "A robust pirate adventure with a neat twist." -- -- The New York Times Book Review