"When we started calling him Captain, it kinda got to his head,” Alex said to me.
“Now he thinks he’s the captain of an old sailing ship or something.”

“Aye,” Hooke said loftily, “and a damn foine cap’n I am, ay lads?”

Alex said to me matter-of-factly, “Cap’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal.”

“And some nuggets, too, if you ask me,” Nigel said.                                   Read More

The Island is Ricky’s escape from his troubled life, a fantastical paradise that appears to him in frequent, unusually vivid dreams.  When a strangely familiar boy offers to take him to the Island, Ricky can’t resist. His dream
escape, however, turns out to be an inescapable nightmare.                                                                                                                     Learn More