The Wreck of the Zanzibar
English
By (author): Michael Morpurgo
A sweeping story of danger, adventure and the high seas. From the nations favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo.
We all knew what was going to happen. Wed seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did not come upright again.
Life on the Scilly Isles in 1907 is bleak and full of hardship. Lauras twin brother, Billy, disappears, and then a storm devastates everything. It seems theres little hope. But then the Zanzibar is wrecked on the islands rocks, and everything changes
The Wreck of the Zanzibar is a sea-swept story of storms, shipwrecks and survival and a family tossed in the centre of it all. From the author of War Horse.
Michael Morpurgo has written more than one hundred books for children and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Childrens Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times.
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