I set out to write the type of story that I liked to listen to when I was young, when my father read bedtime stories to my brother and me. What inspired you to write The Wreckers?Ī.
Each chapter ends on a suspenseful note….An excellent choice for schools and public libraries.” *Starred Review* ”The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence (Delacorte, 1998) is an adventure story in the tradition of Treasure Island and Kidnapped…The story is very exciting, and somewhat graphic and violent, with many twists and surprises. “First-time novelist Lawrence gives a nod to Robert Louis Stevenson in a fast-paced, atmospheric yarn that will have adventure buffs glued to their seats…From the evocative jacket painting of a moonlit shipwreck to the superb characterizations, hair-raising plot and authentic period details is Lawrence’s fiction first rate.” *Starred Review* “Fast-moving, mesmerizing, this is a tale in the grand tradition of Robert Louis Stevenson and Leon Garfield.” *Starred Review* Selected, New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age Selected, School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Nominee, Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Children’s Mystery Winner, Geoffrey Bilson Award Winner for Historical Fiction for Young People And the youngest of its members, 14-year-old John Spencer, survived the wreck. Then, upon that pirates’ shore crashed the ship The Isle of Skye. Most never questioned their murderous way of life.
They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage dead sailors’ tools and trinkets became decorations for their homes.
On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. Buy the Book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, Indigo
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