The Ghost in the Noonday Sun Author:Sid Fleischman "The hair stood up on my neck. I was to be marooned! Left to perish like Jack o'Lantern! I felt the anger in my eyes like sparks. Was there ever such a double-faced scoundrel as Captain Scratch? I'd gladly see him hung in chains! He meant to trick me, did he? Not if I kept my wits about me. That ghost wasn't spied out yet. That treasure wasn't d... more »ug up, either. I was one against them all ?" -from The Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Oliver Finch has waited three long years for his father's whaling ship, the Capricorn, to sail boldly into harbor. Although he's just turned twelve, Oliver has sea salt in his blood. He can't wait for the day when he will join his father and leave childhood far behind. Oliver gets his wish soon enough, but not in the way he'd hoped, when a scurvy captain named Scratch shanghais him aboard the Sweet Molly, known to its villainous crew by another name, the Bloody Hand. Far from Nantucket, and powerless to escape his captor's determined grasp, Oliver wonders if he will ever see his home again.« less