Lilly and the Pirates

In this brave, bookish adventure, ten-year-old Lilly must conquer her fear of the sea and outsmart treasure-hungry pirates to save her shipwrecked scientist parents.

Lilly can’t seem to get past her fears. She writes all of them in her worry journal. But her biggest fear is WATER. So when Lilly learns that her scientist parents are lost at sea, she must overcome her anxieties to find the fabled Shipwreck Islands, outsmart a bunch of treasure-hungry pirates, and rescue her parents. Can she do it?

Here's a funny, warmhearted tale full of courage, libraries, and swashbuckling fun.★ “[An] enjoyably preposterous, emotionally resonant, library-revering adventure.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Many children will relate to this rather cozy adventure story and its lovably flawed heroine.”—Booklist

“Full of adventure and questions of 'What next?'”—Library Media ConnectionPhyllis Root has written many award-winning books for children, including Ten Sleepy Sheep, Oliver Finds His Way, One Duck Stuck, What Baby Wants, Rattletrap Car, and Big Momma Makes the World, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. She currently teaches in the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Hamline University. She lives in Minneapolis, MN.

Rob Shepperson has illustrated many children's books including Bugs by David L. Harrison and The Big House by Carolyn Coman. His droll editorial drawings appear regularly in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. He lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.