Horrendo's Curse

No one, living or dead, is more polite than Horrendo. In all his 11 years he's never said a rude word to anyone – because he was cursed at birth with a spell that only lets him speak kind words. Horrendo finds life difficult in his rough-and-tough village, yet when he and other boys are kidnapped and turned into slaves aboard a pirate ship, Horrendo must turn his curse into a blessing and come up with a clever plot to escape.

Anna Fienberg's fabulous new high-seas pirate adventure, with scoundrels and blaggards, devilish treachery and pirates who long for a bit of comfort - great reading for 8- to 12-year-olds from the world of Horrendo's Curse. Will could walk a tightrope and juggle bananas as he went. 'One day you'll be the star of a circus,' his mother told him. 'But until then, you must be a secret.' For each year pirates came to the islands to steal young boys for their crew. And if that happened to you, well, you may as well kiss your life good-bye.