![]() Immediately captures the reader's interest." -Horn Book. With lively conversation and with increasing tension, from confrontations at sea and aboard Jim's ship, the author crisply tells the story, skillfully integrating historical elements. "The author displays his distinctive gifts for distilling significance from historical matter and for dealing with the sea. "Once again is able to refract universal themes of liberty and self-awareness through history's prism." ![]() Destiny will give him a chance to do just that. Jim, whose father is a slave trader, will have to reconcile his own hatred for slavery with his love for the ship he made and the captain who sails her. Originally the 290, she would come to be known as the Alabama. The ship would go down in history as one of the most famous vessels of the Civil War. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading My Name Is Not Angelica. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. ![]() ![]() But Jim thinks he knows that purpose: it is being built for the Confederate navy.Īnd so launches the story of the intertwined fates of a ship and a boy. My Name Is Not Angelica - Kindle edition by O'Dell, Scott. Whatever its purpose, it is certainly built for speed. ![]() It seems the ship, enigmatically named the 290, is not the cargo ship that people are saying it is. Jim Lynne is idly playing darts in Liverpool when his brother, Ted, calls him over to a table to ask a question about the ship that he is working on. ![]()
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