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The Education of Patience Goodspeed

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About The Book

In the year since the Morning Star sailed away from Nantucket, Patience Goodspeed has navigated a ship and outwitted mutineers, but this time she faces her biggest challenge yet: boarding school!

Now, instead of mathematics and navigation, Patience is forced to study sewing and French. To make matters worse, Fanny Starbuck, the most empty-headed widow in Nantucket, has shown up in Hawaii and seems to be after Papa's hand in marriage! Not if Patience has anything to say about it!

About The Author

Steve Fredericks

Heather Vogel Frederick is the award-winning author of the Mother-Daughter Book Club series, the Pumpkin Falls Mystery series, the Patience Goodspeed books, the Spy Mice series, and Once Upon a Toad. An avid fan of small towns like Pumpkin Falls, Heather and her husband live in New England, close to where Heather grew up. You can learn more about the author and her books at HeatherVogelFrederick.com.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (April 1, 2006)
  • Length: 320 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781416913948
  • Grades: 3 - 7
  • Ages: 8 - 12

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Raves and Reviews

"Patience's tart narration is...smart and funny."

-- Kirkus Reviews

"Swashbuckling."

-- Publishers Weekly

Awards and Honors

  • Kansas NEA Reading Circle List Intermediate Title
  • ALA Amelia Bloomer Project
  • SSLI Book Award Honor Book

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