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Larson, Hope.
COMPASS SOUTH : FOUR POINTS, BOOK 1
New York : Margaret Ferguson Books, 2016
IL 5-8, RL 2.9
ISBN 978-0-374-30043-2
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When 12-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra's father disappears in 1860 New York City, they join the Black Hook Gang and are caught by the police pulling off a heist. They agree to reveal the identity of the gang in exchange for tickets to New Orleans. But once there, Alex is shanghaied to work on a ship that is heading for San Francisco via Cape Horn. Cleo stows away on a steamer to New Granada where she hopes to catch a train to San Francisco to find her brother. Neither Alexander nor Cleo realizes the real danger they are in but they are being followed by pirates who think they hold the key to treasure.  GARDEN STATE CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS, 2019

SUBJECTS:     Action and adventure comics.
                        Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.
                        Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
                        Buried treasure -- Fiction.
                        Graphic novels.
                        Twins -- Fiction.
                        Voyages and travels -- Fiction.

 
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