Jessica is an ordinary schoolgirl, with an ordinary life, normal friends, normal parents, and normal, well, you get the idea.
Jessica is always reading, and reading, and reading.
She feels this strange connection to books that almost no one understands. The only person who does, is her friend Jamie.
They're always saying things like "books show us things we never knew about ourselves" or "they can take us to different worlds" etc. and Jessica (like everyone else) thought that this was just them saying something like "books can transport us", "books are like uniquely portable magic", "Reading is magic" stuff like that.
But one day, while Jessica was reading her new book, she gets so immersed, then...
Poof!
She was in a new world. She had left the material world of physics, science, and the laws of nature, the normal world where everything follows certain rules; into the worlds of magic, wonder and most of all, Danger.
Saving the life of the infamous rookie pirate, Captain Ruben Kirk, catapults Jessica Red into a sea of magic, jewel heists, and world-saving adventure.
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After years of watching pirates fighting with the king's navy off the coast of Harvest Island, Jessica Red saves the life of the infamous rookie pirate, Captain Ruben Kirk, and the two become fast friends. Little does she know, Ruben Kirk is only the first of three rookie pirates she'll meet during a whirlwind of sea-faring adventures - but when Jessica learns the corrupt King Mordred has plans to destroy her island home, can she convince them to help her save it?
("The Rookie Pirates" is Book 1 in "The Adventures of Jessica Red" trilogy.)
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