About this item

In the tradition of Treasure Island, The Duke's Curse continues this thrilling middle-grade series following an unlikely young pirate on a high-stakes sea adventure, by New York Times bestselling author Gregory Mone . Young treasure hunter Fish - nicknamed for his swimming abilities - learns that his refusal to fight has a cost when he's torn away from his pirate family. Fish and his friends Nora and Daniel are forced to sail under Countess Marie de Bornholdt, the widely feared and very unusual captain of the Rat Queen, and her latest assistant - Fish's arch nemesis, Scab.. In search of the storied ship with emerald eyes, the Rat Queen's treasure hunters race from the islands of the Caribbean Sea to the canals of Venice and the sunken library of a cursed prince.