The voyage of Patience Goodspeed

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Label

The voyage of Patience Goodspeed

Statement of responsibility

by Heather Vogel Frederick

Creator

• Frederick, Heather Vogel
• trueFrederick, Heather Vogel

Subject

• true1830s -- 1830 -- 1839
• true19th century -- 1801 -- 1900
• trueChildren of ship captains
• trueChildren of widowers
• Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
• Fathers and sons -- Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueMutiny
• Mutiny -- Fiction
• trueNavigation
• Navigation -- Fiction
• trueSea stories
• trueSeafaring life
• Seafaring life -- Fiction
• trueTwelve-year-old girls
• trueWhaling
• Whaling -- Fiction
• trueWhaling ships

Genre

• trueHistorical fiction
• Fiction
• trueSea stories

Language

eng

Summary

Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use

Pace

• trueFast-paced

Writing style

• trueRichly detailed

Character

• trueSpirited
• trueWell-developed

Award

• Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature (Oregon), 2003.
• Amelia Bloomer List, 2003

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

NjBwBT

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1020

Intended audience source

Lexile

LC call number

PZ7.F87217

LC item number

Vo 2004

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1020

Literary form

fiction

http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel

• 5
• 7

Target audience

juvenile