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And the Baker's Boy Went to Sea | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Cummings
Publisher: Sparkling Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $16.95
New (1) Used (7) from $7.56
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1911933
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 195
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0977485501
EAN: 9780977485505
ASIN: 0977485501
Publication Date: March 1, 2006
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Product Description
Owen Pasquerly, barely 15, is supposed to be 17 or more to serve on a submarine in World War II. His friends get the exciting jobs of lookout and guiding the sub in a dive. Owen's stuck doing what he did back home: baking bread. "Where's the glory in that?" he wonders, even as he does what he's told to keep Captain Abbott's suspicions about his age from sending him home. Then again, maybe Owen never will get home. Maybe the U.S.S. MAKO, loaded with torpedoes for hunting Japanese ships, will itself become the hunted. But there's no "maybe" about it. Owen and his shipmates are in for the battle of their lives. And not everyone will survive.
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a sub vets must January 11, 2007
Charles T. Mitchell
easy reading. brings back fond memories for old sub sailors
Perfect for adventure-starved boys! July 5, 2006
Bridget Levin, author, Rules of the Wild
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Vivid characters, edge-of-the-seat tension, a compelling story - AND THE BAKER'S BOY WENT TO SEA is an absolute dead-on account of how it really must have felt to live and serve in a submarine's sardine can-style quarters under the constant threat of lethal attack.
How DID a 15 year old boy manage to enlist for submarine duty in WW II ?
Find out in this unique tale that will capture the attention and imagination of the adventure-starved boy (and anybody else) on your list!
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