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Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling

200618 pagesabout 15–25 minutes
2006
first published
  • 1981Signet Classics · 186 pages · ENGISBN 9780451523815
  • 1994Reader's Digest Association · 164 pages · ENGISBN 9780895776013
  • 1995Penguin Books · 18 pages · ENGISBN 9780140621884
  • 1995Oxford University Press · 182 pages · ENGISBN 9780192829290
  • 2012Ulverscroft · 252 pages · ENGISBN 9781444810042
  • 2013[CreateSpace Independent Pub. Platform] · 157 pages · ENGISBN 9781453857519
  • 2008Hesperus Press · 128 pages · ENGISBN 9781843914426
  • 1999Tandem Library · 160 pages · ENGISBN 9780613907552

Captains Courageous tells of the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the North Atlantic. He must work as a ship's boy for a fishing season after being washed overboard from an ocean liner.

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Plot intensityEventful
Character focusSingle lead
ComplexityLayered

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Written forMiddle grade
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