The Smuggler's Curse

· Fremantle Press
4.5
2 reviews
eBook
32
Pages

About this eBook

Red Read's life takes an alarming turn when his mother sells him to an infamous smuggler plying his trade off the north-west coast of Australia in the closing days of the 19th century. From terrifying encounters with cut-throat pirates to battling the forces of nature in a tropical typhoon, from dining with head-hunting guerrillas to making meals of monkey stew, Red is in for a hair-raising adventure that may cost him his life.

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4.5
2 reviews

About the author

Norman Jorgensen was born in Broome in 1954 and lived throughout Western Australia during his childhood. His books include The Last Viking and The Last Viking Returns. The Last Viking won the 2012 Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' Crystal Kite Award, the 2012 WA Young Readers' Hoffman Award and a 2012 Children's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges Award. Jorgensen won CBCA picture book of the year for In Flanders Fields.

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