Artemesia, a sixteen-year-old girl at the Angel's Academy for Young 
Maidens, is definitely different from the rest of the girls. One day while 
balancing books on their heads and walking down flights of stairs, Art loses her 
balance and falls down the last flight hitting her head on the banister carved to 
resemble an eagle. That's when she remembered her mother, Molly Faith, who she 
had forgotten about for six years. She remembered everything, her parrot, her 
crew, the code she lived by, her ship, her battles, everything from six years 
ago. The most important thing she remembered was that her mother was 
Piratica, Queen of the Seven Seas, until she died when one of the cannons blew apart 
during a battle, which had given Art a flame red strip of hair in her otherwise 
auburn hair. When Art got to the top of the flight where she had stumbled, 
one of the teachers, Evil Eeble came to see what had happened. Problem is, Art 
doesn't quite remember who she is. When she does recognize Miss Eeble, however, 
in a dress she strikes a pose with her left hand on the hilt of an imaginary 
cutlass that before this academy had once been upon her hip. After escaping 
her father and the academy, Art left for Lundon. Once there, she would try to 
find the members of her mother's once heroic crew who never killed. When she 
finds them, her beloved family, she knows they have changed, but she will bring 
them back to the sea, back to the pirate life she once knew. The crew, Salt 
Walter, Salt Peter, Dirk, Whuskery, Ebad Vooms, Eerie O'Shea, Muck the cleanest 
dog in England, and Plunqwette Molly's parrot were no longer pirates, they were 
coffee sellers. Actually, they never were pirates, neither was Molly. They 
were actors who all starred in the play Piratica. With Art's persuasion, they 
did become pirates who were after the treasure in the Treasured Isle. If they 
ever found the treasure, they'd have to fight Little Goldie Girl, the Golden 
Goliath's daughter. She was the real pirate queen who ruled the Seven Seas. They 
only thing that troubled them was being caught and hung back in England. Would 
this heroic band of pirates live o find the treasure? Would they become the 
world's most fearsome pirates who never killed anyone and were never hung? That 
may change because not only Goldie's after them, but also the English Navy so 
their lives may come to an end sooner than anticipated.  
    This was a wonderful novel! Some of the spellings were a little different 
like Lundon, but it was easy to figure out where they were. I thought it was 
a wonderful tale of the best pirates who never killed anyone, no matter what 
the circumstances and brought fame with them almost everywhere they went. I 
would definitely recommend this book for grades seven and up. It's a perfect book 
for treasure hunters of all kinds and adventurous explorers. 

Kayla Aldan, 9th grade, Boardman High School