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Araminta and her best friend Wanda are going on a school trip to Skeleton Island, a place rumored to be the site of a scary ghost shipwreck. And when the pair is stranded overnight, they discover that there might be more truth to the island's name than they would have preferred.
Now some terrifying pirate skeletons are on the loose, and they want to take the girls down to Davy Jones's locker with them! Will Araminta, Wanda, and an unexpected friend be able to thwart the ghostly crew, avoid a watery fate, and maybe find some lost treasure to boot?
Told with her trademark wit and a dash of scary fun, along with black and white illustrations throughout, Angie Sage's latest tale is perfect for fans of Pseudonymous Bosch and Jacqueline West.
Author Notes
Angie Sage was born in London in 1952. Although she initially attended medical school, she left to study graphic design and illustration at an art school in Leicester, England. After graduation, she began illustrating books and then later moved onto writing. She is the author of two children's series: Septimus Heap and Araminta Spookie.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Horn Book Review
In her seventh story, Araminta and her friend, Wanda, become stranded during a school field trip on an island inhabited by pirate ghosts. The skeleton pirates conscript the pair to dig up missing treasure and join their crew...unless Araminta can figure out how to break the pirates' curse. Cartoonish black-and-white illustrations highlight the humor and downplay anything scary in this mildly spooky adventure. (c) Copyright 2017. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
A class of school kids on a field trip gets an infusion of piratical machinations in this latest book in a series, following Gargoyle Hall (2015).Living in a boarding school is the best thing ever to have happened to Araminta Spookie. And when the class field trip turns out to be to creepy Skeleton Island, she has no difficulty filling her classmates in on the mysterious pirate ship that sank beneath the seas nearby. A run-in with two nefarious girls leaves Araminta and her best friend, Wanda, stranded on the island, where they have the particular misfortune to run into bat guano, ghost girls, and skeleton pirates with a sweet tooth for buried treasure. Araminta is not particularly nice to Wanda, but it's intriguing to watch her use her brains to get the two of them out of sticky situations. Kelly's black-and-white illustrations temper the tiny traces of scary material, leaving the book appropriate for younger ages, though they appear to depict an all-white cast. Skeleton pirates are nothing new, and Araminta offers the usual goth-girl-in-a-jam formula. Still, there are enough piratical high jinks to keep young readers on their toes.Come for the ghost. Stay for the pirates. (Fantasy. 7-10) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
The second Araminta Spookie adventure from Sage, better known for the Septimus Heap series, moves along briskly, bearing plenty of shivery fun. Araminta and her sidekick, Wanda, intrepidly deal with ghosts and pirates when their school goes on a deserted island field trip. Double-crossed by school bad girls Creepy Cora and Nosy Nora, the twosome are left behind in a guano-drenched bat cave when their classmates sail back home. The discovery of a pearl necklace lying in the muck, and an encounter with a ghost cabin girl disguised as a cabin boy, ultimately results in the resurrection of a pirate crew of fierce and scary skeletons. Forced to dig up a buried chest of treasure, Araminta and Wanda hope Araminta's bat friend will get word of their plight back to Araminta's uncle Drac before they are pressed down to Davy Jones' locker to become part of the pirate's drowned crew. Black-and-white sketches lend a kinetic energy to the book's pages. Rollicking fun for those who like to devour offbeat adventures!--Cruze, Karen Copyright 2016 Booklist
