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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Twelve-year-old Oliver tries to escape from pirates who take him to an island to find the ghost and treasure of Gentleman Jack
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1965
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Sid Fleischman
103 books150 followersAs a children's book author Sid Fleischman felt a special obligation to his readers. "The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work." With almost 60 books to his credit, some of which have been made into motion pictures, Sid Fleischman can be assured that his work will make a special impact.
Sid Fleischman wrote his books at a huge table cluttered with projects: story ideas, library books, research, letters, notes, pens, pencils, and a computer. He lived in an old-fashioned, two-story house full of creaks and character, and enjoys hearing the sound of the nearby Pacific Ocean.
Fleischman passed away after a battle with cancer on March 17, 2010, the day after his ninetieth birthday.
He was the father of Newbery Medal winning writer and poet Paul Fleischman, author of Joyful Noise; they are the only father and son to receive Newbery awards.
Sid Fleischman wrote his books at a huge table cluttered with projects: story ideas, library books, research, letters, notes, pens, pencils, and a computer. He lived in an old-fashioned, two-story house full of creaks and character, and enjoys hearing the sound of the nearby Pacific Ocean.
Fleischman passed away after a battle with cancer on March 17, 2010, the day after his ninetieth birthday.
He was the father of Newbery Medal winning writer and poet Paul Fleischman, author of Joyful Noise; they are the only father and son to receive Newbery awards.
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May 19, 2021
وقتی شروع کردم نتونستم باهاش ارتباط برقرار کنم بعد گفتم بزار یه وقتی به نویسنده بدم شاید آخراش قشنگ بشه.
و بله از پایانش خوشم اومدش
موضوع درباره ناخدابود که یه نوجوانی به نام الیور می دزدد. الیور به خاطر این می دزده که نیمه شب به دنیا اومده بین روز سشنبه و چهارشنبه اون میتونه بهش در پیدا کردن گنج کمک کنه میتونه روح شریکش ببینه و گنج برای خودش کنه
و بله از پایانش خوشم اومدش
موضوع درباره ناخدابود که یه نوجوانی به نام الیور می دزدد. الیور به خاطر این می دزده که نیمه شب به دنیا اومده بین روز سشنبه و چهارشنبه اون میتونه بهش در پیدا کردن گنج کمک کنه میتونه روح شریکش ببینه و گنج برای خودش کنه
March 19, 2021
همان اولین بار که خواندمش -بیستوچهار سال پیش- خیلی دوستش داشتم و برایم سرشار از غافلگیری بود. این دومین بار هم به قدر کفایت راضیام کرد.
June 23, 2007
This is a children's book, but it is one of my favorites. I have re-read it a couple of times, and it is just as good even now that I'm old and hardened.
October 19, 2014
3 1/2 stars. Fast-paced and entertaining adventure story, with much more on pirates than ghosts.
January 3, 2025
I listened to this book on a scholastic audiotape in fifth grade and loved it so much that I listened to it over and over again. Now that I’m grown with four kids, I cannot find that audio version anywhere! It was so good! So now I’ve purchased this book used on eBay and have read it to each of my kids. They’ve all loved it. I’m currently reading it to my seven year old boy. I love to do the pirate voices and accents. It is such a good book to discuss the meanings of unfamiliar words and phrasing since it’s set in a time far past and they speak just differently enough to make it a little tricky. We take the time to stop and talk about what’s happening and make predictions. I highly recommend this as a read aloud for around seven years old and up.
January 9, 2016
I'm a big Sid Fleischman fan. I love his verve, his wit, his complications, his plucky characters. The Ghost in the Noonday Sun had all that, but perhaps in a lesser quantity than I had hoped. The lad Oliver is told that he should have to ability to see ghosts even in daylight. For that reason, he is swiped by pirates to find the ghost of the guardian of a buried treasure. We never meet a ghost, but all the Treasure Island crew seems to show up in one guise or another. I had a blast reading this, but it didn't linger in my mind.
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November 2, 2014
This book was a lot of fun, probably one of my favorite juvy books I've read lately. I didn't think I was into pirate stories, but this one had the perfect mix of adventure, humor, and plot twists. It's not really much of a ghost story, so the title is a bit misleading, but if I say more it will give away too much. I especially recommend this book for boys but I am going to check out the audio book again for a family car trip because I think my girls and Ismael will like it too.
April 19, 2020
Amazing. Sublime. My Favourite book ever written. Read it crossing the NT/QLD and the WLD/NSW borders during cross-country moves. Thought about it recently and wondered whether I had hallucinated it. Turns out I didn't, and this masterpiece is actually real (there's a film, too, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers).
May 9, 2008
A lot of fun. Sort of an easier-to-read version of Treasure Island, but with Sid Fleischman's characteristic twists and surprises, vivid dialog and characters. Not my favorite of Fleischman's books, but still enjoyable.
February 4, 2015
I loved this book so much when I was a kid. It was only when I grew up that I realized it's a hybrid ripoff of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. :)
December 16, 2018
My favorite children story.
May 6, 2021
I really liked the pirate theme that dominated two-thirds of this book. You suspect something at first, but Captain Scratch is not who he seems!
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January 28, 2021
It made me so mad that they tricked Oliver into bringing soup on the ship and then trapped him in a room for two days and then had this whole charade that Oliver had stowed away and that the captain was going to punish him, when they had shanghaied him. Not funny. John said captain as “capting” and it was so stupid.
Oliver kept trying different things. He dropped a cannonball on John’s head but it bounced off somehow and he just laughed it off and said he had a hard head. Yeah. Right. Then he carved a message in a board that he was a prisoner aboard the ship and wrote its name and his own. He implanted the gold coin that Scratch had given him into the wood so it could be seen easier. What a waste of that coin. And then he realized that that was a false name and the ship had another name so he’d never be found.
Jack o’ Lantern saw him do this but didn’t say anything about it.
During a storm they lost crew members until they were down to 13 and Scratch thought that was unlucky and so said someone needed to sacrifice themselves. If they drew a coin out with the cross on it then they had to walk the plank. Oliver saw that Scratch had pretended to take a coin from the bag when he really hadn’t and had never planned to go along with walking the plank himself and making John captain like he offered. Jack o’ Lantern pulled the coin out and was on the plank when Oliver spotted land and Scratch decided to maroon him. They left him on the island and sailed away. Two men rowed him out and he told them Scratch would never let them share in the treasure and convinced them to go along with his plan. He put his clothes on a bundle or canvas and his head scarf around ropes to make it look like his body was on the island. That’s why he never turned his head to look at the island, it wasn’t him! He hid in the rowboat and came out at night on the ship. He told Oliver that Scratch killed his men who buried the treasure and that’s why he’s afraid of spirits.
Oliver inadvertently sent them to the spot where there was a chest buried. Inside were cannonballs and no treasure at all. The captain was mad and threw some overboard in disgust. That night Oliver sounded the alarm that there were dredgies coming aboard. Scratch went and hid in his room but was dragged out and started confessing to his sin of killing Gentleman Jack. He fought almost to the death but realized he was fighting Billy Bombay, his old shipmate. Billy said he’d buried that chest and when Scratch informed him it was full of cannonballs, Billy said it was black tarnish. They had melted the silver down and put it in molds to fool thieves, and Scratch and John had thrown it all overboard.
Oliver told Jack that night that he was sided with Jack o’ Lantern and to tell Jack to walk 20 paces away from his dagger buried in the ground to find the treasure. Oliver had marked the area where he really did see the ghost. But John had picked up the dagger thinking Oliver had dropped it. Ugh!
Scratch sent Billy and Oliver to search for the ghost but Oliver sensed Billy was going to off him because Scratch had said he’d get rid of one of them. They spied a ghost that scared Billy half to death, but it turned out to be John and Jack using glow worms to light them up. They had done the same thing the time Oliver first saw the “ghost.”
Billy was so scared he was witless and no use to Scratch, and he used Jibboom as collateral to ensure Oliver cooperated. He had caught the cat in a bag and threatened to throttle him if Oliver didn’t come out.
I didn’t really follow the logic, but the fruit dripping stains on Oliver’s shirt disappeared, and from the story of the ink marking the bearings of the buried treasure by Gentleman Jack, Oliver figured out that the treasure was buried under a tree because the fruit tree grew up at the spot.
Jack o’ Lantern had it all figured out and had planned to shake Scratch up. He let him see the treasure but right after Scratch got mad that they started splitting it up without him, he hit him over the head. He told everyone to remember that they didn’t hear or see the captain and he stayed out of sight. He had Oliver carve a headstone and they gave a speech about him like he died! John said “There he stood with a fortune at his feet and a coconut tree over his head. One dropped. Aye, an unfortunate act of fate. Here he lies on this lonely island—but not forgotten.”
I laughed aloud when John said “Oh, I can smell the brimstone risin’ up from his grave already. Shed a tear, boys. He’s headed in the wrong direction.”
Everyone ignored Scratch and then he looked at Oliver and Oliver said he could see him and the captain was upset that only Oliver could because he knew what that meant. John said the captain is hardly cold in the ground and already beginning to smolder. If he’d treated the cutthroats better he might be going to a cooler climate. “Here rests his timbers with the fires of Hades roastin’ him from below and the noonday sun from above. Let it be a lesson to us all, boys.”
They really did leave Scratch on the island thinking he was dead. It was kind of sad when he waved to them and Oliver waved back. Someone could come and rescue him and he’d be a changed man. The ship was sinking so they had to abandon it. When Jack saw that the crew was loading up the rowboat with the treasure chests, Jack said for them to take the skiff. It was Jack, John, Oliver and the cat together stocked with food. They tried to tell the rest to throw the chests overboard so they’d make it but they didn’t listen and drowned. John said “It’s enough to cure a man of keepin’ ignorant company.”
Cannibal, the man who had been going to kill Oliver, was saved. I didn’t care for that because I never liked him. Then it jumped to it taking Oliver 2 months to get home. His aunt fainted and his dad caught her. He’d been looking for Oliver all over and he said he’d been at sea and hung up his cap beside his dad’s.
I HATED that all the treasure they worked sooo hard to get was taken by others and sank to the bottom of the ocean. Why did the ship have to take on water; why couldn’t they just get the treasure? I hated all the things that went wrong.
I wanted a more conclusive ending about what Oliver did with his life and what happened in his future. I hate endings that are so sudden and cut off right in the middle of a moment.
Captain Scratch had pretended to threat using the cat-o’-nine tail and John Ringrose pretended to talk him out of it. Scratch said he’d belay the cat. They said ship ahoy and Avast, there.
It was funny that Oliver said his dad would be knocking heads together and that he’d boil him down for the oil in his hide. Scratch said “Scraped down for lamp fuel!”
While a ship with Oliver’s friend and and boarded to search for him, John hid Oliver in a hidden place and told him that he had a friend in him and he won’t let any harm come to him on the ship. He had been a stowaway and went through all kinds of things at sea.
Jack o’ Lantern said he was hiding in the grass on that island when Oliver “came turtling by.” It was funny because Oliver and his cat Jiboom had hid under a turtle shell and he used it to crawl away when he heard the men talking about his demise.
It was funny when Oliver was leading Scratch on a merry goose chase, in the opposite direction from where he really saw the ghost. Scratch asked him to confirm the direction and Oliver said “More or less.” Scratch asked “Well, was he this way or that, boy!” He said “More that than this, I think.” Later he said “A shade more here than there. But a mite more there than here.”
Oliver said he was “mad as all wrath” when Scratch had Jimboom in a bag and threatened to kill him if he didn’t come out.
John said “I mislike to say it, but I don’t think ye can see a spirit any better than the rest of us, no matter what hour ye was born.” Oliver realized: “I couldn’t see ghosts. I didn’t want to see ghosts. By thunder, I didn’t believe in ghosts!”
This was enjoyable reading. You can tell the author has a sense of humor. It was constant and there were so many funny sayings and things. The thing I didn’t like was that this utilizes the plot where everything goes wrong. There are crazy happenings and mistakes and wrong choices with bad consequences and I hate when things go so wrong repeatedly for the character.
Oliver kept trying different things. He dropped a cannonball on John’s head but it bounced off somehow and he just laughed it off and said he had a hard head. Yeah. Right. Then he carved a message in a board that he was a prisoner aboard the ship and wrote its name and his own. He implanted the gold coin that Scratch had given him into the wood so it could be seen easier. What a waste of that coin. And then he realized that that was a false name and the ship had another name so he’d never be found.
Jack o’ Lantern saw him do this but didn’t say anything about it.
During a storm they lost crew members until they were down to 13 and Scratch thought that was unlucky and so said someone needed to sacrifice themselves. If they drew a coin out with the cross on it then they had to walk the plank. Oliver saw that Scratch had pretended to take a coin from the bag when he really hadn’t and had never planned to go along with walking the plank himself and making John captain like he offered. Jack o’ Lantern pulled the coin out and was on the plank when Oliver spotted land and Scratch decided to maroon him. They left him on the island and sailed away. Two men rowed him out and he told them Scratch would never let them share in the treasure and convinced them to go along with his plan. He put his clothes on a bundle or canvas and his head scarf around ropes to make it look like his body was on the island. That’s why he never turned his head to look at the island, it wasn’t him! He hid in the rowboat and came out at night on the ship. He told Oliver that Scratch killed his men who buried the treasure and that’s why he’s afraid of spirits.
Oliver inadvertently sent them to the spot where there was a chest buried. Inside were cannonballs and no treasure at all. The captain was mad and threw some overboard in disgust. That night Oliver sounded the alarm that there were dredgies coming aboard. Scratch went and hid in his room but was dragged out and started confessing to his sin of killing Gentleman Jack. He fought almost to the death but realized he was fighting Billy Bombay, his old shipmate. Billy said he’d buried that chest and when Scratch informed him it was full of cannonballs, Billy said it was black tarnish. They had melted the silver down and put it in molds to fool thieves, and Scratch and John had thrown it all overboard.
Oliver told Jack that night that he was sided with Jack o’ Lantern and to tell Jack to walk 20 paces away from his dagger buried in the ground to find the treasure. Oliver had marked the area where he really did see the ghost. But John had picked up the dagger thinking Oliver had dropped it. Ugh!
Scratch sent Billy and Oliver to search for the ghost but Oliver sensed Billy was going to off him because Scratch had said he’d get rid of one of them. They spied a ghost that scared Billy half to death, but it turned out to be John and Jack using glow worms to light them up. They had done the same thing the time Oliver first saw the “ghost.”
Billy was so scared he was witless and no use to Scratch, and he used Jibboom as collateral to ensure Oliver cooperated. He had caught the cat in a bag and threatened to throttle him if Oliver didn’t come out.
I didn’t really follow the logic, but the fruit dripping stains on Oliver’s shirt disappeared, and from the story of the ink marking the bearings of the buried treasure by Gentleman Jack, Oliver figured out that the treasure was buried under a tree because the fruit tree grew up at the spot.
Jack o’ Lantern had it all figured out and had planned to shake Scratch up. He let him see the treasure but right after Scratch got mad that they started splitting it up without him, he hit him over the head. He told everyone to remember that they didn’t hear or see the captain and he stayed out of sight. He had Oliver carve a headstone and they gave a speech about him like he died! John said “There he stood with a fortune at his feet and a coconut tree over his head. One dropped. Aye, an unfortunate act of fate. Here he lies on this lonely island—but not forgotten.”
I laughed aloud when John said “Oh, I can smell the brimstone risin’ up from his grave already. Shed a tear, boys. He’s headed in the wrong direction.”
Everyone ignored Scratch and then he looked at Oliver and Oliver said he could see him and the captain was upset that only Oliver could because he knew what that meant. John said the captain is hardly cold in the ground and already beginning to smolder. If he’d treated the cutthroats better he might be going to a cooler climate. “Here rests his timbers with the fires of Hades roastin’ him from below and the noonday sun from above. Let it be a lesson to us all, boys.”
They really did leave Scratch on the island thinking he was dead. It was kind of sad when he waved to them and Oliver waved back. Someone could come and rescue him and he’d be a changed man. The ship was sinking so they had to abandon it. When Jack saw that the crew was loading up the rowboat with the treasure chests, Jack said for them to take the skiff. It was Jack, John, Oliver and the cat together stocked with food. They tried to tell the rest to throw the chests overboard so they’d make it but they didn’t listen and drowned. John said “It’s enough to cure a man of keepin’ ignorant company.”
Cannibal, the man who had been going to kill Oliver, was saved. I didn’t care for that because I never liked him. Then it jumped to it taking Oliver 2 months to get home. His aunt fainted and his dad caught her. He’d been looking for Oliver all over and he said he’d been at sea and hung up his cap beside his dad’s.
I HATED that all the treasure they worked sooo hard to get was taken by others and sank to the bottom of the ocean. Why did the ship have to take on water; why couldn’t they just get the treasure? I hated all the things that went wrong.
I wanted a more conclusive ending about what Oliver did with his life and what happened in his future. I hate endings that are so sudden and cut off right in the middle of a moment.
Captain Scratch had pretended to threat using the cat-o’-nine tail and John Ringrose pretended to talk him out of it. Scratch said he’d belay the cat. They said ship ahoy and Avast, there.
It was funny that Oliver said his dad would be knocking heads together and that he’d boil him down for the oil in his hide. Scratch said “Scraped down for lamp fuel!”
While a ship with Oliver’s friend and and boarded to search for him, John hid Oliver in a hidden place and told him that he had a friend in him and he won’t let any harm come to him on the ship. He had been a stowaway and went through all kinds of things at sea.
Jack o’ Lantern said he was hiding in the grass on that island when Oliver “came turtling by.” It was funny because Oliver and his cat Jiboom had hid under a turtle shell and he used it to crawl away when he heard the men talking about his demise.
It was funny when Oliver was leading Scratch on a merry goose chase, in the opposite direction from where he really saw the ghost. Scratch asked him to confirm the direction and Oliver said “More or less.” Scratch asked “Well, was he this way or that, boy!” He said “More that than this, I think.” Later he said “A shade more here than there. But a mite more there than here.”
Oliver said he was “mad as all wrath” when Scratch had Jimboom in a bag and threatened to kill him if he didn’t come out.
John said “I mislike to say it, but I don’t think ye can see a spirit any better than the rest of us, no matter what hour ye was born.” Oliver realized: “I couldn’t see ghosts. I didn’t want to see ghosts. By thunder, I didn’t believe in ghosts!”
This was enjoyable reading. You can tell the author has a sense of humor. It was constant and there were so many funny sayings and things. The thing I didn’t like was that this utilizes the plot where everything goes wrong. There are crazy happenings and mistakes and wrong choices with bad consequences and I hate when things go so wrong repeatedly for the character.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 18, 2023
The first time I read Treasure Island as an adult, I was very disappointed. I had anticipated something closer to Ghost in the Noonday Sun, especially linguistically. Luckily, Treasure Island only improves with rereading. There are so many more layers within it to discover. While Ghost in the Noonday Sun is entertaining from the first, there isn't really anything to dig into or rediscover. However, it's lots of fun and I would recommend it for anyone who enjoyed the Muppets' version of Treasure Island.
February 9, 2026
I was 10 when I read this book. I was bewitched and mesmerized, so much so that the story stayed with me after all these years. Worst part, I forgot the title. I knew the story but I couldn't remember the title. No matter what I searched, I couldn't find it.
UNTIL NOW.
OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I FINALLY FOUND IT.
It has taken a special place in my heart since it awakened my fascination with pirate stories, cursed treasure and sea mysteries. So exhilarating and fun to read.
UNTIL NOW.
OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE I FINALLY FOUND IT.
It has taken a special place in my heart since it awakened my fascination with pirate stories, cursed treasure and sea mysteries. So exhilarating and fun to read.
March 31, 2023
I always enjoy Sid Fleischman’s humor and quick-moving adventure. This book isn’t his best (The Whipping Boy is still my favorite), but it was still a rollicking good time. SPOILER ALERT: If you’re a parent concerned about your kids reading books with ghosts and the supernatural, you needn’t fear this book. There aren’t any actual ghosts at all.
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June 22, 2017
Not an original idea but I just enjoyed the book and the way the story was written...
February 6, 2019
As a teenager novel it's good.
February 7, 2023
This book was surprisingly good. It reminded me of Treasure Island.
July 30, 2025
Such a fun, clever book! It was just as enjoyable as I remembered.
January 31, 2026
3.5 stars. A fun read.
February 15, 2026
Absolutely LOVED it! A clever, face paced book that will make you laugh. Such a special book
February 21, 2017
YA book - an old one but a good one- that's why it's still in print great adventure ARRh This was a re-read. A very used copy is in my permanent library.
March 13, 2013
THE GHOST IN THE NOON DAY SUN
Sid Fleischman
“Have Treasure-Need Kid Bait"
This is a light read for kids—no real meat for adults here--but good fun, with surprise twists one very other page—even on the Same page! Fourteen-year-old Oliver Finch dreams of going to sea, instead of helping his aunt at her New England inn. Fortunately for him the sudden arrival f one Captain Scratch (easily the devil’s agent or human kin) ends Oliver’s landlubber life. Back then superstitious folks believed that people born at the stroke of midnight had the lucky “gift” of seeing the ghosts of the dead. Could Oliver be one of the lucky—or unlucky—ones?
This greedy, murderous villain is obsessed with discovering the location of buried treasure on a remote isle. He authorizes cruel torture (is there any other kind?) to wring confessions from the doubtful but terrified boy. Surprisingly Oliver finds unexpected pirate allies on his nightmare voyage and sojourn on a dangerous tropical island. Also his aunt’s cat proves an unlikely but welcome stowaway, but to accompany him in his maritime misery. Can young Oliver deceive the bloodthirsty captain and his scumbag crew long enough to escape back home? Great stuff for junior high boys.
(November 17, 2012. I welcome dialogue with teachers.)
Sid Fleischman
“Have Treasure-Need Kid Bait"
This is a light read for kids—no real meat for adults here--but good fun, with surprise twists one very other page—even on the Same page! Fourteen-year-old Oliver Finch dreams of going to sea, instead of helping his aunt at her New England inn. Fortunately for him the sudden arrival f one Captain Scratch (easily the devil’s agent or human kin) ends Oliver’s landlubber life. Back then superstitious folks believed that people born at the stroke of midnight had the lucky “gift” of seeing the ghosts of the dead. Could Oliver be one of the lucky—or unlucky—ones?
This greedy, murderous villain is obsessed with discovering the location of buried treasure on a remote isle. He authorizes cruel torture (is there any other kind?) to wring confessions from the doubtful but terrified boy. Surprisingly Oliver finds unexpected pirate allies on his nightmare voyage and sojourn on a dangerous tropical island. Also his aunt’s cat proves an unlikely but welcome stowaway, but to accompany him in his maritime misery. Can young Oliver deceive the bloodthirsty captain and his scumbag crew long enough to escape back home? Great stuff for junior high boys.
(November 17, 2012. I welcome dialogue with teachers.)
February 11, 2024
When Oliver Finch delivers a pot of cod chowder to Captain Scratch's ship the "Sweet Molly," he is locked in a storage room and taken to sea. The captain believes that Oliver can see ghosts because he was born on the stroke of midnight. He hopes to use Oliver's "talent" to find a lost pirate's treasure. After the ship passes the southern latitudes, the "Jolly Roger" is flown and the name is changed to the "Bloody Hand." When one mate falls overboard, Captain Scratch maroons another because he can't have 13 pirates on board ship. It's unlucky! This mate, Jack-o-Lantern, outwits the captain, comes back on board, and helps Oliver double cross Captain Scratch once and for all.
©2024 Kathy Maxwell at https://bookskidslike.com
©2024 Kathy Maxwell at https://bookskidslike.com
November 22, 2023
A pretty good story about pirates, though the title and cover are a bit misleading. Don’t get your hopes up that it’s gonna be ghost-filled, though ghosts are a main plot point still (which I already knew this before reading, but others might not be).
I read this book because of the very silly movie based on it with the same name. Of course they are pretty different, but I was surprised to find out just how much was the same! The book is way less silly than the film. The Captain Scratch character is more serious and smarter than his counter-part Captain Scratcher in the film, and I actually found myself instead picturing Long John Silver (Tim Curry) from Muppet Treasure Island as I read.
I read this book because of the very silly movie based on it with the same name. Of course they are pretty different, but I was surprised to find out just how much was the same! The book is way less silly than the film. The Captain Scratch character is more serious and smarter than his counter-part Captain Scratcher in the film, and I actually found myself instead picturing Long John Silver (Tim Curry) from Muppet Treasure Island as I read.
September 15, 2015
j'ai lu ce livre en français,Le jour de ses quatorze ans, oliver est kidnappé par un capitaine pirate et le voila en route pour les îles des mers du Sud ! Mais pourquoi a-t-il été enlevé ? A la recherche du trésor de Gentleman Jack, le capitaine Scratch a besoin de quelqu'un d'exceptionnel pour le guider dans sa quête. Quelqu'un qui soit né sous les coups de minuit, comme Oliver. Car on dit que les personnes nées à minuit ont la capacité de voir les fantômes. Or le seul moyen de trouver l'emplacement du trésor, c'est de suivre le fantôme de Gentleman Jack qui hante son île.
January 20, 2015
Great fun; a change from Fleischman's other books written at that time, set in the U.S. mainland/Southwest, such as Jingo Django, By the Great Horn Spoon and Mr. Mysterious. This book is all pirates in the Caribbean, with a good dollop of treachery and finding that good people aren't always the ones who seem nicest.
December 19, 2016
I read this story earlier and have just reread it. It is a hilarious childrens book about a boy who is supposed to be able to see ghosts
July 14, 2009
Being Read By: Hoppy and Junior
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