The Dagger Quick
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Publication Year
2013
ISBN
9781442483682
Pages
352 pages
Genre
historical
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Twelve-year-old Christopher "Kitto" Wheale, a clubfooted boy seemingly doomed to follow in the boring footsteps of his father as a cooper in seventeenth-century England, finds himself on a dangerous seafaring adventure with his newly discovered uncle, the infamous pirate William Quick.
Grade Level
3-5; 6-8
Lexile Measure
690L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Disability and Health; Step parent; Family member death; Kinship care; Physical disability; step mother; death of a parent; death of a father; uncle raising nephew; congenital limb difference; clubfoot
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
step mother and father
Awards
Cybils Awards, 2011, Nominee, Fiction Middle Grade
Keywords
murder; kidnapped; adventure; history; England; pirates; sea; coming-of-age; siblings; half-siblings; piracy
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Eames, Brian, "The Dagger Quick" (2013). Diverse Families. 1817.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1817