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Bottles of Eight and Pieces of Rum

Novel

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When Kip fails to prepare an oral report for history and attempts to fake one on piracy at the end of the class period, he manages to buy one night to produce a report for the next day. The only clues he has about piracy are the stories he’s heard from his sickly old grandfather. Now that Grandfather is nearing his end, he begs Kip to believe that he has truly lived the tales he told.

He had lived in History two dimensions, one in the present and one as an eighteenth- Action, Adventurecentury pirate. The key to returning to the past is in a chest in the attic. He beseeches Kip to make the trip and bring to the present the daughter he left behind many years ago. A family picture moves Kip to believe the old man, and his curiosity takes over as he examines the wondrous items in the chest in the attic.

Within seconds of the bottle being in his hands, Kip is trans- Narrative ported to a sea inhabited by pirate ships and is swimming for his life. Fished out of the sea by the crew of a pirate ship, Kip becomes one of them and learns the pirates’ code of behavior and business in detail. Kip swabs, serves, fights, and watches. But it is just after he rescues Captain Dawes from drowning and adminis­ters CPR that he faces great jeopardy. He discovers Captain Dawes is a woman. She would kill to protect her secret.

Kip further discovers Captain Dawes is his aunt, the daughter of his grandfather and the person he went into the past to bring back. He cannot stop the punishment the crew meets out to him and Captain Dawes, but both finally make it back to the present. And what a show he presents to his class on piracy!

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