Caroline Carlson has created a world where magic is currency, pirates are more charming than alarming, and a girl can choose a life as a pirate instead of a life in petticoats. So Hilary-with the help of her friends, including the always spirited gargoyle-challenges Blacktooth to a High Seas battle.
What the League needs is a very honorable pirate to be their new president. With Captain Blacktooth in cahoots with the Mutineers, the kingdom of Augusta and all its magic are at risk. After trying to prove herself to the VNHLP, she realized many members of the League weren't all that honorable-not even very nearly. Hilary Westfield is now a freelance pirate. MAGIC MARKS THE SPOT is the first installment in the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates trilogy.Humor, magic, and adventure abound in the third-and final-book of the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series. To escape a life of petticoats and politeness at her stuffy finishing school, Hilary sets out in search of her own seaworthy adventure, where she gets swept up in a madcap quest involving a map without an X, a magical treasure that likely doesn’t exist, a talking gargoyle, a crew of misfit scallywags, and the most treacherous-and unexpected-villain on the High Seas. There’s only one problem: The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates refuses to let any girl join their ranks of scourges and scallywags.īut Hilary is not the kind of girl to take no for answer.
She can tie a knot faster than a fleet of sailors, and she already owns a rather pointy sword. She can tread water for thirty-seven minutes. Hilary Westfield has always dreamed of being a pirate. “Relationships are sweet and beautifully drawn, there is at least one laugh per page, and I quite enjoyed the notion of entrenched pirate bureaucracy.”-The New York Times ★ “There’s merriment and intrigue on the high seas in this debut novel… Carlson’s characters are as memorable as they are entertaining.”-Publisher’s Weekly, starred review HarperCollins Children’s Books (September 2013)
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