Moonfleet

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Summary: A Review On Moonfleet, Written By Bethany Allen
Review: Do you like reading? Well, Moonfleet is the novel for you. Moonfleet is a gripping adventure story about the Mohune family who are a secret group of pirates. John Trenchard, a 15-year-old hero, tells the story. It is full of lots of exciting things from love to fear, nightmares and horror. The village of Moonfleet lies half a mile from the sea where secrets are told and many things are revealed.
I would recommend this book mainly to boys but I can promise you that I couldn't put it down and I am an 11-year-old girl. It is definitely a book for all ages and if you like thrilling adventure stories then Moonfleet is the one for you!

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Summary: Very Moonfleety
Review: MOONFLEET IS A FAIRLY INTERESTING BOOK IT IS A UNIQUE BOOK WITH ORIGINAL STYLE AND A ONE-OF -A- KIND -STORY.the story is about a 15 year old boy called john trenchard who goes on extraordinary adventures on his quest to find blackbeards treasure he soon becomes trapped in avault and finds out a bit more than he bargained for a little bit startled he soon gets locked in and becomes hungry and thirsty he drinks the smuggled alchole he finaly gets rescued but his life changes forever an exeptionally fantastic story with laughter,sadness,romance,pain,rejection and a family classic........

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Summary: A Review of Moonfleet by Lucy Crabtree
Review: Moonfleet is a good book once you get into it, but it takes quite a long time to do that. The first 3 or 4 chapters are a little boring but once the story unfolds things start to get interesting. The book is set in the 1700s and is about an orphaned boy called John Trenchard who lives in the village of Moonfleet, which is full of smugglers, with his aunt. One day he finds a locket that once belonged to the legendary pirate Blackbeard, and his life becomes very different. If you want to find out what happens after that, you will have to read the book!
It has got some quite hard words in it, but I think that this book is quite suitable for children aged 10 and over and adults might enjoy it, too.

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Summary: Exciting and Somewhat Original
Review: When I began reading this book, a friend of mine took one look at the cover and started naming off what he thought the aspects of the plot were. He named all of the traditional pirate story cliches (sometimes platitudes): orphaned boy, evil pirate, hidden treasure, etc. By looking at the cover, I thought that was what it would be too, and I looked forward to the classic adventure story (I've always loved swashbucklers). As it was, Moonfleet is a very original novel that doesn't follow of the conventions. Surely, some of those elements are there--the orphaned boy and treasure--but they are twisted in different ways. Moonfleet is somewhat darker than other swashbucklers such as Treasure Island, and there are actually no pirates at all. There is also a little bit more depth of characterization as John Trenchard and Elziver Block have a long and meaningful friendship. Moonfleet is certainly a superior adventure novel, complete with exciting escapes (a lot of them), lost treasure, and some actual characterization. It's well worth reading.