Captain January
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Book Description
The story of Star Bright, who is rescued by Captain January (a former seaman who is now a New England lighthouse keeper) after her parents are drowned in a shipwreck. Captain January rescued Star when she was two or three years old. Everyone else aboard was lost. January made a token effort at finding Star's relatives, then just kept her for himself. Now, four years later, he has a truant officer ...
MoreThe story of Star Bright, who is rescued by Captain January (a former seaman who is now a New England lighthouse keeper) after her parents are drowned in a shipwreck. Captain January rescued Star when she was two or three years old. Everyone else aboard was lost. January made a token effort at finding Star's relatives, then just kept her for himself. Now, four years later, he has a truant officer breathing down his neck because he didn't send Star to school promptly at age six but "home-schooled" her instead; and he's about to become unemployed again due to the installation of an automatic lighthouse beacon. Star is of course an irrepressible little bundle of happiness, but very distraught at the thought of being taken away from "Cap." January taught Star from the Bible and a nautical manual because "they both show you how to steer a straight course"), they're willing to steal the answers to Star's school entrance exam (but grab a High School exam by mistake). Captain January (originally published in 1890), a best seller, was twice made into movies, and the second time starred Shirley Temple. Laura Elizabeth Richards was born in Boston in 1850, daughter of the poet Julia Ward Howe, is perhaps best known as the author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic." She wrote many other books for children. Among her adult nonfiction works were a two-volume biography of her father, Letters and Journal of Samuel Gridley Howe (1906-09); a joint biography of her parents, Two Noble Lives (1911); and, most importantly, the two-volume biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe (1915), the first biography to be honored by the Pulitzer Prize.
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