Jan. 14 - Night Ship by Jess Kidd

400 pages. 2022. Based on a true story, an epic historical novel that illuminates the lives of two
characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years
later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island. 1629: A newly
orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of
the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the
long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical
monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. 1989: A lonely boy named Gil
is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing community where
his late mother once resided. There, on the tiny reef-shrouded island, he discovers the story of
an infamous shipwreck...