Other parents may choose seventh or eighth grade, due to the fact that Ricky IS fighting with pirates. The Caribbean Chronicles Series is appropriate for mature sixth grade readers. Q: What age is appropriate for these books? But Ricky's absence seizures also provide a portal back in time and a means to alter current and future events - provided he can escape pirate land without getting killed. His absence seizures are un-predictable and while not life-threatening (normally), they leave him self-aware of his limitations. As an awkward, self-conscious teen, Ricky struggles with his epilepsy. Parents will appreciate the clean elements and moral values that avoid profanity and sexual situations. Q: Why should parents buy the Caribbean Chronicles Series for their boys and girls? Boys and girls will fall in love with the quirky characters Ricky Bradshaw meets, their pirate sayings, not-so-bright antics, and the way Ricky helps capture ships and find treasure by using the skills and knowledge a 21st century boy would when thrust back into the age of pirates. Novels in the Caribbean Chronicles Series are fast, fun, clean teen and tween books that take readers back to the Golden Age of Piracy.

Q: Why should a boy or girl begin reading the Caribbean Chronicles Series? May also contain some content of an inspirational/religious nature. Written for the General Market (G): Contains no sexual dialogue or strong language. (I was forced into piracy, after all, and taking things is what pirates do.) In the book I include a REAL PIRATE MAP of Calico Jack's sailing routes and ports and stuff. Some liberties have been taken in the telling of the story. The End of Calico Jack is a fictional retelling of the life of Calico Jack, Ann Bonny, and Mary Read based on historical research. The men of our crew keep getting stabbed or shot or hung. You're welcome to climb aboard and sail with us.

If I make it off this ship alive, you'll read how one of the largest pirate treasures ever taken wound up in a cave off the southwestern tip of Hispaniola The bad news is, I'm now sailing around the Spanish Main with Calico Jack, Ann Bonny, and Scary Mary Read. The good news is, I found the ship's log in a cave on Coffin Cay with the exact course and route and longitude and latitude of where the Nuestra Señora De Riqueza would be on October 16, 1720. I was aboard the evening we stole the William. With a nefarious crew, Calico Jack voided his pardon to the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas, Woodes Rogers, and went hunting for merchant ships. In October 1720, Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read stole the William, a 12 ton sloop.

The End of Calico Jack by Eddie Jones