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    Stowaway

    Written by Karen Hesse

    Narrated by David Cole

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In 1767, 11-year-old Nicholas Young stowed away on Captain James Cook's "Endeavour." Cook's three-year mission was secret: he was charged by the British Navy to search for a lost continent, believed to be located between the southern tip of South America and New Zealand. Young's journal charts the voyage and with every port of call a new adventure awaits. This is the story of a great voyage of discovery seen through the eyes of a boy who was actually there.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJun 4, 2002
    ISBN9780807210048
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    Stowaway
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    Karen Hesse

    Karen Hesse is the author of many books for young people, including Out of the Dust, winner of the Newbery Medal, Letters from Rifka, Brooklyn Bridge, Phoenix Rising, Sable and Lavender. In addition to the Newbery, she has received honors including the Scott O’Dell Historical Fiction Award, the MacArthur Fellowship “Genius” Award and the Christopher Award, and was nominated for a National Jewish Book Award. Born in Baltimore, Hesse graduated from the University of Maryland. She and her husband Randy live in Vermont.

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    • 4/5
      Book on CD read by David CaleIn the summer of 1768 Captain James Cook set sail on H.M.S. Endeavor for a major expedition to explore the possibility of a new continent. In addition to the ship’s crew he carried aboard a naturalist, Mr. Joseph Banks, and his assistants, who would record the flora and fauna encountered on the journey. He also had aboard one Nicholas Young, age 11. All this is known from the public records which have been preserved, and it’s interesting to note that Young doesn’t appear on the ship’s muster until April 18, 1769, eight months after the ship left England. Scholars have speculated about how he might have boarded Endeavor; this is Hesse’s imagined scenario.I’ve read several of Hesse’s books for children, written in verse, and all based on some historical event. This book is the first prose book I’ve read by her. I was immediately drawn into the story of this boy escaping a situation he hated. (His father had apprenticed Nick to a butcher to “toughen him up.”) He had some education, so Hesse has Nick keeping his own journal of the voyage, and these journal entries are the way in which the story of Endeavor’s first three-years-long voyage is told. It's a great adventure, and a believable coming-of-age story. Nick is bright, enthusiastic, hard-working and observant. There are crew members who are his champions, and others who are bound and determined to see him fail. He makes some friends and suffers along with others through storms, attacks by native peoples, hunger, damage to the ship and an illness that decimates the crew. Hesse includes an afterword that explains the history behind the novel, a list of all the people aboard (taken from public records), and a glossary of terms.David Cale does a fine job of narrating the audiobook. He really brings these characters to life.
    • 5/5
      Based on Captain Cook’s first global spanning voyage (1768 - 1771), The Stowaway] by Karen Hesse was a fabulous read. Using actual facts and written accounts, the author uses the youngest member of the crew, Nicholas Young, believed to have been a stowaway, to tell her story. Of course she has expanded on the few facts known about Nicholas but still keeps the story within the boundaries of believability. Written as his journal, she has young Nick running away from a vicious master that he was apprenticed to. With the help of three seamen he is smuggled aboard the Endeavour while the ship is at harbour. He is hidden and kept in supplies until after the ship has sailed beyond the point of return.Nicholas upon showing himself became a valued member of the crew, working with the ships surgeon and also helping to look after the stock. At first he was simply the ships “boy”, but after Tahiti, he was entered into the books and eventually earned the rating of Able-bodied Seaman. Nicholas caught the eye of botanist Joseph Banks who was also on board for the purpose of discovering new life forms, both plant and animal. Nicholas is known to have sailed with Joseph Banks again on a trip to Iceland.The story was pure adventure as the ship embarked on a journey of a lifetime. Discovering and visiting places where no man had ever been. But even sailing though the South Pacific, charting the waters around both New Zealand and parts of Australia, there was danger, sickness, famine, and storms to overcome. Although this is classed as a YA story, I think The Stowaway will appeal to anyone who loves a good adventure.
    • 3/5
      2.5-3 stars. Light, fun sci-fi story. I had issues with the characters though. I thought Raine went back and forth between wanting Kit to wanting to punish himself for wanting Kit for too long. And I think I'm in the minority here, but I never really warmed up to Kit.

      The writing was good though and kept me engaged until the end. I will be trying more of this author's work.
    • 3/5
      Stowaway reminded me of author Karen Hesse's book, Out of the Dust, in a couple of ways. Both had young teen main characters with one parent who died and one parent who didn't handle single parenting well. Both characters are forced to handle big adult issues (the suffering and death of loved ones) too early in life. Both books are written in the form of diary, with short choppy entries. And both center around historical events (OOTD-The Great Depression in America; S-Captain Cook's voyage around the world). If you have read and enjoyed OOTD, you will probably also enjoy Stowaway.
    • 3/5
      The story of Nicholas Young and his adventures on the Endeavor are told in diary form. Although it's fiction, the story is based upon actual ships logs and diaries from the voyage of the Endeavor, led by Captain Cook.The author describes this exploratory voyage through the eyes of Nick who is eleven years old at the start of the voyage. It's filled with details and historical accuracy. My only complaints are that the author doesn't go into more detail about Nick's past, or his future and the second half of the book get a little tedious because it drags on. This is probably due to the fact that very little is known about the actual Nicholas Young aside from his association with this voyage and the "dragging plot" towards the end is due to the author staying true to the actual tale.Aside from those frustrations, Stowaway is a great nautical adventure.
    • 5/5
      One drawback to reading the books assigned by my daughter's curriculum is that I start to get bored with reading about the same events or the same settings. A few months back I had gotten my fill of Leonardo da Vinci, Queen Elizabeth I and the whole Renaissance. These days, as my daughter studies the age of exploration and colonization, I'm starting to tire of reading accounts of ocean voyages. If I read about seasickness, scurvy and wormy biscuits too many more times, I'm going to have to start seeking out a copy of Dune or Lawrence of Arabia or something. On the other hand, sometimes a book is so well written that one can gloss over the same old, same old and enjoy the milieu afresh. Such is the case of this book. Stowaway is the fictionalized tale of Nicholas Young, a young lad who journeyed around the world with Captain James Cook on his 1768 to 1771 voyage. Young's name suddenly appears in the ship's log eight months after the ship sailed from England, leading historians to speculate that he was a stowaway. Ms. Hesse has taken that idea, as well as the historical records of the voyage, and woven them together to make a great tale. She made the voyage come alive, allowing me to taste the joy and emotional hardships experienced by young Nick. I'll never complain about flight delays again... well, at least not often. Anyway, I'm really toying with the idea of hanging onto the book after the kids' school days have passed. One thing is certain, though, Stowaway is well worth checking out.--J
    • 4/5
      It's always fun to see what form Karen Hesse's books might take from free prose in Out of the Dust to journal in Stowaway. The book is a fictionalized journal based on a real stowaway on an actual voyage of Captain James Cook.