My Name is Luke

Silver Medal Winner, Historic Fiction YA, 2014 Literary Classics Awards On a quiet day in 1858, two desperate men hijack a schooner from the Marblehead, Massachusetts harbor. Trapped aboard his grandfather's boat is fifteen-year-old Luke Constance. He is a normal kid who plays pranks on the townsfolk and has a crush on Agatha, his classmate. But Luke is not ordinary-very well versed himself, he reads aloud to workers in small, local shoemaking shops. And he knows more about sailing schooner...