It's definitely one of the darkest books I've read (in the first couple of chapters, a ship is wrecked on a coast by villagers who lured it there by false harbor lights, a teenaged boy is chased by villagers who want to kill him to eliminate any survivors, and he encounters a man that seems to glide along the ground in the darkness until he realizes the man has no legs and uses his arms to push himself on a little wheeled platform - OH MY GOSH SO TERRIFYING!). "Wow! What a book! It's so exciting when a book blows me away - it may not be the best book I've ever read, or something that I would adore if I'd known about it going into it, but this was entirely unexpected and I loved it. The Wreckers was chosen by Booklist as a Young Editors' Choice and by the New York Public Library as a title for reading and sharing. Ron Keith's exceptional narration ensures readers nonstop entertainment in the classic tradition. The spell-binding excitement of a swashbuckling adventure, and the wrenching moral conflict of a Dickens novel delightfully converge in this critically-acclaimed debut novel. Trapped in a strange land with no idea of whom to trust, he faced the most terrifying challenge of his life. As John hid on the shore, he saw his shipmates murdered by these ruthless scavengers. One stormy night in 1799, 14-year-old John Spencer was unfortunate enough to be on his father's ship when the wreckers did their worst. Then these wreckers made sure that no one survived the wrecks, so there would be no witnesses to their crimes. Some of them were evil and lit fires during a storm to lure ships onto the rocks. They made their living by salvaging food and clothing from the wreckage.
There was once a village off the coast of Cornwall, England, where people were so poor that they prayed for shipwrecks.
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