Pip of Pengersick - A Smuggler's Tale
Jane A. C. West
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(Harvey Berrick Publishing, June 27, 2012)
WINNER of the Holyer An Gof best children's bookAdopted into a family of notorious Cornish smugglers, Pip of Pengersick takes to life on the high seas as she learns the trade of those who sail by a dark moon.Business is going well when a well-dressed stranger sends Pip, a small dog, and her friend, the smuggler Harry Carter, on an urgent mission to London – ordered by the King of England himself.A secret mission takes the intrepid Pip and Harry to France, a country in the grip of revolution. Pip’s Cornish home seems a long way away – will Pip and Harry ever make it back alive without the shadowy figures who seem to dog their every footstep…