If you feel marooned in a sea of high drama and disturbing dystopian fiction, look to Carrie Vaugh’s Steel to throw you an action adventure life line. If you have reached the part of your summer where you just want a good adventure full of pirates, swashbuckling adventure and heroism, this is your book.
After coming in fourth and just missing the opportunity to compete in the National Fencing Championships, Jill is frustrated and wondering if she should even continue training. Her family takes advantage of the break in the schedule to vacation in the Bahamas. While walking on the beach, 16 year old Jill finds a mysterious sword shard. With this broken sword piece in her pocket, a tourist boat cruise runs into foul weather and puts Jill over the side and into the ocean. When she surfaces it is in the 18th century. Pulled from the ocean by a crew of pirates, Jill joins their adventure under the leadership of their captain, Marjory Cooper. Jill’s training as a fencer comes in handy as she makes her way among real pirates of the Caribbean. Jill becomes entangled in a pirate feud between Marjory and Blane, an evil pirate up to no good. A cursed sword with supernatural powers leads to cruel secrets. The danger of the more nasty pirates is balanced by the sweet kind, smile of Henry, who teaches Jill the ways of being a pirate on the ship Diana. Steel is a great adventure full of interesting characters set against the backdrop of Caribbean piracy in the 1700’s.
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