Red Sea

Red Sea by Diane Tullson is a modern day pirate novel. Unfortunately, pirates who are actually terrorists are not as cool as the traditional pirates who dress funny and carry swords.

Libby has chosen to skip a year of school to sail around the world with her mother and step-father. She likes the boat, but she doesn't like her step-father and she is mad at her mother. It may be a long year.

While leaving Djibouti with a caravan of boats, Libby and her family get left behind - out of radio range. In the middle of the night they are attacked by men with machine guns.

Now Libby has to navigate the Red Sea on her own - she must provide medical aide, get the boat's motor to work, figure out where they are in relation to the hazards of the sea and the hostile countries around it, and somehow save herself and her family.

Tullson has written a harrowing and tense novel of one young woman's fight for survival in the middle of a rough sea. Red Sea is an example of how to write adventure stories.

Tullson, Diane. (2005). Red Sea. Custer, WA: Orca Publishing.