The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters: The Jolly Regina is a remarkable novel about two girls, Kale and Jaundice Bland. The girls live alone in Dullsville while their parents are out on an errand traveling the world. Kale and Jaundice have a very routine life that’s rather…. bland. However, their lives drastically change when a pirate named Lefty comes to their house and kidnaps them.
They wake up on a pirate ship called The Jolly Regina. They are enslaved on board with no way off. When the captain tells the children that they are on the same ship that kidnapped their parents and marooned them on Gilly Guns Island, the sisters devise a plan to get to the island and find their parents.
They spend their time on the ship scrubbing the deck, helping the cook, Fatima get over her troubles, and watching the fully female crew fight off the male pirates. Sadly, one day they get caught trying to sail the ship in the direction of Gilly Guns Island and are prepared to be keel-hauled (thrown off a pirate ship with a rope tied to their feet). Suddenly, a privateer comes up next to them with the Ann Tenille, the most famous pirate in the seven seas captaining it. When the crew of The Jolly Regina starts fighting against Tenille and her crew the sisters hide and wait for the fight to end. Will they make it out alive or will the die in the chaos?
I really liked this book because before every chapter, there is a definition. For example, before chapter fourteen on page seventy-three, there is the definition of the word “bereft”, meaning lacking in something needed. The chapter is then focused on the word while, not being overtaken by it.
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