School Ship Tobermory

  • Type: Books
  • By: Alexander McCall Smith
  • Age Category: Children
  • Genre: General Fiction
  • Recommended by: Tom S.
  • ISBN/UPC: 9780399552618
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High-seas adventure meets boarding school hijinks

Fraternal twins Ben and Fee MacTavish are excited about becoming crew members of the School Ship Tobermory, where students learn windjammer seamanship along with more conventional subjects.  The siblings form quick friendships with some of the other students and find duty under the ship’s firm-but-fair officers very agreeable, but there’s trouble ahead in the form of school bullies and a mysterious ship called Albatross.

Author McCall Smith, perhaps best known for his mystery series featuring Precious Ramotswe, maintains his light touch here in this pleasant nautical yarn with a just-dangerous-enough plot and fully relatable characters. 
 

 

This would be a good choice for young people who are reading above grade level.