“Then I'm doomed!” He let me go and slumped at the rail. “I'm finished. We all are, maybe.”
“No one's doomed,” said I.
His glass eye burned. “Oh, we are, young Mr. Spencer. There's a Jonah come aboard.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Iain Lawrence was born in Ontario, Canada. A former journalist, he now writes full-time. In addition to his magazine and newspaper articles, he is the author of two nonfiction books about sailing and the novel The Wreckers, which was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon book, and a Booklist Editors' Choice book, and for which he was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start author.
An avid sailor who enjoys building ships in bottles, Iain Lawrence spends several months every year traveling by boat with his longtime companion, Kristin, and their dog, the Skipper. Their home is a remote radio-transmission site on an island off Prince Rupert, on the north coast of British Columbia.
Published by Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children's Books a division of Random House, Inc., New York
Text copyright © 1999 by Iain Lawrence
Map copyright © 1999 by Virginia Norey
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