Captain Hannah Pritchard (Hannah Pritchard #3)

Captain Hannah Pritchard: The Hunt for Pirate Gold by Bonnie Pryor is the third book in her Hannah Pritchard historical fiction series.

After running away and joining a crew to fight the British - and to avenge her family - and after being captured and imprison by the British then escaping - Hannah and her friends are back at sea.

Hannah, disguised as Jack, is the cook on a ship commissioned to fight for the new United States. If they can lose the bad ship following them they will go after the treasure they buried in the last book. But they will still have to dodge pirates and British Navy ships.

Pryor has written a trilogy that will bring early American history to life for young readers.

Pryor, Bonnie. (2011). Captain Hannah Pritchard. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers.

Pirate Hannah Pritchard: Captured! (Hannah Pritchard #2)

Pirate Hannah Pritchard: Captured! by Bonnie Pryor is the second book in the Hannah Pritchard trilogy. Hannah vowed to fight the British after her family was killed.

After joining the crew of a privateer ship and helping to capture a British Navy ship, Hannah and crew are sailing back to Maine. The two ships are traveling together so it looks like the Navy ship is escorting the other - so that other British Navy ships will leave them alone.

But a storm blows the two ships apart and off course. Now Hannah's ship is about to be lost. The captain does what he can to get her safely to an island with their treasure.

But Hannah, along with a couple of her friends on the ship, find themselves captured by the British. They will be transported to a prison ship on the Hudson River to either live out the Revolutionary War or perish in chains.

Pryor's series of one fictional character looks at the history of our country's fight for freedom from the British. Her books are exciting and educational. Great for grades 3-6.

Pryor, Bonnie. (2011). Pirate Hannah Pritchard: Captured! Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers.

Hannah Pritchard: Pirate of the Revolution (Hannah Pritchard #1)

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.