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Title: The Wreckers (The High Seas Trilogy)
ISBN: 0440415454
Author:
Iain Lawrence
Publicate Date: 1999-11-09
Publish: 1999-11-09
List Price: $6.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: The Wreckers By Anna, Megan, & Brigida
Have you ever had your life on the line just because you survived a ship wreck? Well John Spencer has, in the thrilling book called The Wreckers. After John escapes the ship wreck, more trouble begins, when he is being chased by the wreckers. Iain Lawrence has a style that keeps you in suspense. You never really know what is going happen. The setting in the book was on the coast of an island, called Cornwall, which was supposedly haunted. The main characters, John Spencer and Mary go on many adventures to find Johns father. John is determined to find his father because he knows he's alive. One weak point of the book was when Mary's pony fell into the mine shaft. The author doesn't describe this scene that well. The strongest part of the book was when a deranged man without legs is chasing John. This is one of the important parts and it is very descriptive. The author is trying to convey is that you should never give up no matter what. When John tries to find his father, he goes through many rough times but he keeps at it and doesn't stop. This book would be good for 6th and 7th graders who are in to survival and suspenseful books.
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2: The Wreckers by Hashem, Chris and Zac
"Adventures, Extraordinary, Suspenseful"
Living the life as a sailor can be hazardous. It takes intelligences takes bravery, and as shown in the book The Wreckers, written by Iain Lawrence. This book is filled with adventure and excitement, as John Spencer tries to survive on the island of the wreckers. John, a fourteen year old boy survived a brutal boat crash into the tombstones of a mysterious island. After the boat crash, Johns father is taken away by a group called the wreckers. John is now desperate to find his father, and will search high and low, above and beyond to find him. On the island of the wreckers, it looks like it has been deserted for years. It also looks like an old country western town. Some strong points of the book are that the author uses strong verbs and adjectives, and has a very good and strong vocabulary. We would recommend to anyone who likes adventure, who likes suspense, and loves to be throne off their seat in amazement. Be sure to catch the sequal, The Smugglers, also by Iain Lawrence.
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3: The Wreckers
If you saw your rescuers drown a fellow sailor, would you trust them? That is exactly what John Spencer, a survivor of a mysterious shipwreck, wonders in the book 'The Wreckers'. As John enters the world of treachery, he finds that things aren't always what they seem. First of all, his true rescuer, Simon Mawgan, makes suspicious outings whenever a ship might be wrecked. This happens in many other homes in Pendennis, people getting ready for a shipwreck, getting ready to kill the survivors and plunder the ship. While he tries to solve the mystery of the mastermind behind all this, he also has the complication of finding his father. Will this determined fourteen-year-old defeat the wreckers, or will they defeat him?
Lawrence has written a remarkable tale that fascinates readers of all kinds and leaves you with characters hard to forget. It's treachery and justice make it exciting. 'The Wreckers' is an amazing story filled with mystery galore. This book is an adventure story packed with action and suspense, leaving you wanting for more.
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*The two other books in the trilogy can't compare to this one. It leaves the other two FAR behind.
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4: Looking for a dad while trying to live -Daniels review
This is a book of excitement and adventure that you would never want to miss.It's about a boy named John who is wrecked on shore by false beacons. Sad thing is, is that he is the only survivor.Once he is helped by a stranger he meets a girl that will be his guide and best friend forthe rest of his stay on the English province. Then after everything that has happened he realizes that his father is missing. After meeting a man with no legs,the man tells John that he has his father captive. So this book turns around and in to a race against time to find John's father before John is forced out of the province and back home. After freeing his father they decide to help a ship that is beeing enticed by the Wreckers.It's a great story that everyone should read. It is all about friendship, trust, and the right thing to dobut most of the book is about cruelty from salvaging ships to looting and murder of others.
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5: See if you can survive on this mysterious, murderous island! By Carri, Cheyenne, Shaina, and Anna
From sharp, rocky cliffs, to misleading lanterns, to a legless man, The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence is an exciting, heart stopping novel about trust and survival. John Spencer, his father, and his father's ship, The Isle of Skye, have wrecked on an un-mapped, mysterious island by supposedly misleading lanterns. While being hunted by vicious wreckers (who killed off the remains of his crew), John is on a quest to find his father who's being held captive by the legless man.
Simon Mawgan, a plump, wealthy character with unnatural mood swings who owns the land, and his brave, kind-hearted niece, Mary, take John in to help him survive. John, the main character, a semi-cowardly, suspicious, independent young man, has the ability to solve the mystery of the false beacons, but can he do it? Can use both his brain and his brawn?
Although the plot is a little predictable, it has strong voice and great description, especially when he describes his father's rotting foot. Ages ten and up for violence and shocking images.
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