A great book for a reader just getting into chapter books. It was also a good introduction to the idea of a historical fiction.

A transitional reader chapter book set in the 1700s or so, this book has a ultimately happy ending after a young boy is sold by his horrible uncle into slavery.

If this book was written today, it would be a horror story about a boy who, after being sold into slavery, is lied to by pirates, and is either killed or turned into a bloody-thirsty, depraved ubervillain ravaging the seas between America and Europe. Thankfully, it's not.