Hannah Pritchard: Pirate of the Revolution by Bonnie Pryor is the first of a trilogy about a female privateer for the new US against the British.When Hannah's parents and brother are murdered by British soldiers, Hannah wants revenge. As a girl of fourteen, there is not much she can do. She has nowhere to go and no food or shelter on her parent's property that has been burned to the ground.
After making her way to Portsmouth, New Hampshire to work at an inn but she is taken with the ships in port and the idea of sailing the seas to take her revenge on the British. So one morning, dressed in her brother's clothes and using his name, she signs up to be a cabin boy on the new privateer ship Sea Hawk.
Pryor has written a great historical adventure of a strong girl who did not let society's rules get in the way of what she needed to do. Reader's will be pulled in by the end of the first page and keep reading until they run out of words.
Pryor, Bonnie. (2008). Hannah Pritchard: Pirate of the Revolution. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers.
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