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The Drift House: The First Voyage (Drift House, Bk 1)
The Drift House The First Voyage - Drift House, Bk 1 Author:Dale Peck An exciting fantasy series about three siblings’ adventures on the high sea -- the Sea of Time, that is. — After 9/11, Susan and her younger brothers, Charles and Murray, are sent to live with their uncle Farley in Canada. Uncle Farley’s house looks like a ship perched at the edge of the sea, but it’s not until a great flood com... more »es that the house’s name -- Drift House -- starts to make sense. Floating aimlessly on the Sea of Time, the ship-like house begins to yield its many secrets -- including a mural that seems to predict the future, a dumbwaiter that enables Murray to travel into the future and back again, and a parrot historian who’s also a gifted translator.
But when a clan of diabolical mermaids trick the children and their uncle into helping them carry out a plan that will stop time forever, it will take all of Susan’s ingenuity -- along with some help from a great whale, a band of pirates, and a magic carpet -- to set things straight.« less