Full name: Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck

Author: Margarita Engle Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Poetry, Young adult, Children, Fiction, Adventure Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780805092400 9781250040107 0805092404

Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado--half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother's Taino Indian language and his father's Spanish. But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety. He learns how to live on land again, among people who treat him well. And it is he who must decide the fate of his former captors.