And quite a lot of people die, rather callously. But then his father mysteriously takes the whole family to Sunrise Island - a beautiful island where rich people live, and Egg’s adventures begin.Įgbert’s older brother and sister and their tutor are all horribly mean to him, as a matter of course. Their field hands are mainly retired pirates, many of whom don’t actually have two hands. He lives on a fruit plantation with his father, older brother, and older sister. It’s called that because the weather is awful. I’d be sorely tempted to classify it as “Historical,” except it’s a totally imaginary history of totally imaginary places.Įgbert is growing up on Deadweather Island.
This book is only fantasy in that it takes place in an imaginary world, and legendary magic is mentioned, but it is dismissed as a legend and no magic is ever seen. While in college, he was an editor of both the Harvard Lampoon and the Let's Go travel guide series.G.
Geoff grew up in Freeport, Illinois and began his writing career on his high school newspaper. His early writing credits include the educational video game WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?, the non-educational MTV series BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD, and Comedy Central's POLITICALLY INCORRECT. Geoff is also the Emmy-nominated screenwriter of such hit films as DADDY DAY CARE, RV, and the Disney Channel's GOOD LUCK, CHARLIE, IT'S CHRISTMAS. Geoff Rodkey is the New York Times bestselling author of the suburban-apocalypse comedy LIGHTS OUT IN LINCOLNWOOD (July 2021) and ten books for middle grade kids: Kevin Hart's MARCUS MAKES A MOVIE (June 2021) the science fiction comedy WE'RE NOT FROM HERE the illustrated comedy THE TAPPER TWINS GO TO WAR (WITH EACH OTHER) and its three sequels the critically acclaimed CHRONICLES OF EGG adventure-comedy trilogy and THE STORY PIRATES PRESENT: STUCK IN THE STONE AGE, a comic novel bundled with a how-to guide for kids who want to create stories of their own. The only people who can help him sort out the mystery of why he’s been marked for death are Millicent and a one-handed, possibly deranged cabin boy.Ĭome along for the ride. Suddenly, Egg’s running for his life in a bewildering world of cutthroat pirates, villainous businessmen, and strange Native legends. Until someone tries to throw him off a cliff. Not that Egg’s life was ever easy, growing up on sweaty, pirate-infested Deadweather Island with no company except an incompetent tutor and a pair of unusually violent siblings who hate his guts.īut when Egg’s father hustles their family off on a mysterious errand to fabulously wealthy Sunrise Island, then disappears with the siblings in a freak accident, Egg finds himself a long-term guest at the mansion of the glamorous Pembroke family and their beautiful, sharp-tongued daughter Millicent. It’s tough to be thirteen, especially when somebody’s trying to kill you. A stunning middle-grade debut-full of heart, humor, and nonstop action.
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