The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi is an adventure on the high seas.The Doyle family is moving back to Providence, RI from England. Charlotte, 13, will remain until the school year ends and then cross the sea in one of her father's company's ships. All though it is a cargo ship, there will be two families with kids her own age making the voyage with her.
Once school at the Barrington School for Better Girls ends, Charlotte is escorted to the ship, the Seahawk. Many of the romantic notions of sailing are dashed when she sees the old ship. Then she finds out that the other families will not be arriving.
What follows is the account of Charlotte, the only girl and the only non-crew member, on a voyage across the Atlantic ocean. Before they arrive in Rhode Island there will be mutiny, a hurricane, death, and a female member of the crew.
Avi. (1990). The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. New York: HarperCollins.
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