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I found a couple of books at the library sale and they looked interesting for DD 13...big, long, historical adventure and cheap! Something that should take her longer than an afternoon to read. 
Anyway, they are The Escape from Home and Beyond the Western Sea.
Well, I thought I had heard of this author but checked out his other books and couldn't find anything familiar so I came to my next go to place...HERE.  And I can't find any references to these books or other books by him. I checked out his blog and was wondering what others thought of him. Everytime I tried to search "avi" I got everything that included "avi" in the word: behAVIor, hAVIng etc.
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If you search "crispin", there are several threads about the author.
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Aagot wrote:
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And Crispin is one I have concerns about - anti-Catholic, which I shared in one of those old threads.
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My mom was my Literature teacher in Catholic School in 6th grade.
One of my most memorable books from that class was The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.
The book is about a 13? yo girl who is sailing to America to meet up with her father, I think? (Been a long time since I read it). However, she slowly discovers the corruption on board the ship...and is then implicated and tried for murder.
It is a bit intense in this regard, as a young girl is pinned for the crime. It is an interesting lesson in "fairness" and "authority", amongst other valuable lessons. I do remember it being disturbing that it did not seem "just" to my young mind. You may want to read first, depending on the maturity of your child.
It is an excellent read. A page-turner. I remember boys in my class, who were not readers, who would read ahead because it was so suspenseful.
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Charlotte Doyle is an AWFUL book. There is no redemptive value to it.
The crew mutiny and she helps them over throw a cruel captain.
She finally makes it home to her parents and feels they are rigid and uptight and she doesn't want to be confined to the role of a lady.
So she sneaks out her window to run away with the much much older black man who befriended her on the ship to live a life of adventure.
The end.
Yeah. That's right.
The book is mostly about a supposedly smart 13 year old girl who runs off with a grown man to live with him on any unreputable ship he can sneak her onto. 
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I think The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is very well-written, but not a book I would ask my daughter to read (she is 14) unless she insisted on reading it, and then we'd have some very long talks.
Avi carefully crafts a twisting plot that is magnified by the setting of the book (the ship - all the details about the ship and the captain's stateroom reflect what is going on with the plot). As a piece of young adult literature, it's very well written. But, as Martha says, I don't want my daughter to be like Charlotte, and as Maggie says, it's not for every young reader. I think Maggie's advice is spot on - read it first and then make a decision.
Charlotte's "I'll do as I please" attitude might make for exciting reading (and it does), but I'll take Laura Ingalls' and Betsy Ray's devotion to family, or Anne Shirley's boundless love and imagination, any day.
(Ironically, my daughter totally dislikes historical fiction, so she would consign Laura, Charlotte, et. al. to the same dusty bookshelf...  )
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Oops.
That's the last time I rely on a 20 year old memory.
Now that others have given a more complete synopsis...I do remember all that! And I do remember being very concerned for the girl in the end because she ran away with the sailor...away from the true safety of her parents.
Which begs the question, since my mom was my literature teacher in CATHOLIC school, "she let me read WHAT?!?!?!?"
Sorry for the confusion.
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