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Authors: Dave Barry,Ridley Pearson
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Peter and the Starcatchers
ALSO BY DAVE BARRY
FICTION
Tricky Business
Big Trouble
The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog
NONFICTION
Dave Barry’s Money Secrets: Like: Why Is There a Giant Eyeball
on the Dollar?
Boogers Are My Beat
Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway: A Vicious and Unprovoked Attack on
Our Most Cherished Political Institutions
Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down
Dave Barry Turns 50
Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus
Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs
Dave Barry in Cyberspace
Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys
Dave Barry’s Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides
Dave Barry Is NOT Making This Up
Dave Barry Does Japan
Dave Barry’s Only Travel Guide You’ll Ever Need
Dave Barry Talks Back
Dave Barry Turns 40
Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
Dave Barry’s Greatest Hits
Homes and Other Black Holes
Dave Barry’s Guide to Marriage and/or Sex
Dave Barry’s Bad Habits: A 100% Fact-Free Book
Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major
Corporation in Roughly a Week
Stay Fit and Healthy Until You’re Dead
Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9
Months with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home
The Taming of the Screw
ALSO BY RIDLEY PEARSON
Kingdom Keepers—Disney After Dark
Kingdom Keepers II—Disney at Dawn
Kingdom Keepers III—Disney in Shadow
Steel Trapp—The Challenge
Steel Trapp—The Academy
Killer Weekend
Cut and Run
The Body of David Hayes
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life as Rose Red
(writing as Joyce Reardon)
The Art of Deception
Parallel Lies
Middle of Nowhere
The First Victim
The Pied Piper
Beyond Recognition
Chain of Evidence
No Witnesses
The Angel Maker
Hard Fall
Probable Cause
Undercurrents
Hidden Charges
Blood of the Albatross
Never Look Back
WRITING AS WENDELL MCCALL
Dead Aim
Aim for the Heart
Concerto in Dead Flat
ALSO BY DAVE BARRY & RIDLEY PEARSON
Peter and the Shadow of Thieves
Peter and the Sword of Mercy
Peter and the Secret of Rundoon
Escape from the Carnivale
Cave of the Dark Wind
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Copyright © 2004 Dave Barry and Page One, Inc.
Il ustrations copyright © 2004 by Greg Cal
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Printing History
Disney Editions/Hyperion Books for Children hardcover edition / September 2004
Disney Editions/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children trade paperback / April 2006
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data on file.
ISBN 978-1-4231-4094-8
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank whoever invented e-mail, because without it
we don’t know how a guy in St. Louis could write a book
with a guy in Miami.
We thank Wendy Lefkon, who read the first few chapters and
decided she wanted to publish the book, even though at the
time she had no idea where it was going, and neither did we.
We thank Ridley’s agent, Al Zuckerman, and Dave’s agent,
Al Hart, because when you have two Als representing you,
you KNOW you’re in good hands.
We thank Judi Smith, Nancy Litzinger, and Louise Marsh,
who keep us sane and organized, or at least organized.
And above al we thank Paige Pearson, for asking her daddy
one night, after her bedtime story, exactly how a flying boy
met a certain pirate.
—
Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
To
Storey, Rob, and Sophie; Marcelle and Michelle;
and of course, Paige, whose idea this was
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
CHAPTER 1:
The Never Land
CHAPTER 2:
The
Second Trunk
CHAPTER 3:
Molly
CHAPTER 4:
The Sea Devil
CHAPTER 5:
Captain Pembridge
CHAPTER 6:
Black Stache in Pursuit
CHAPTER 7:
Peter Ventures Aft
CHAPTER 8:
Adrift in a Dory
CHAPTER 9:
The Rescue
CHAPTER 10:
Black Stache Closes In
CHAPTER 11:
The Messengers
CHAPTER 12:
Angry Words
CHAPTER 13:
The Ladies
CHAPTER 14:
The Alliance
CHAPTER 15:
The Attack
CHAPTER 16:
Bad News
CHAPTER 17:
The Next Target
CHAPTER 18:
The Plan
CHAPTER 19:
The Witch’s Broom
CHAPTER 20:
Molly’s Story
CHAPTER 21:
The Sighting
CHAPTER 22:
Blackness on the Horizon
CHAPTER 23:
Any Minute Now
CHAPTER 24:
Overboard
CHAPTER 25:
A Fly in a Spiderweb
CHAPTER 26:
Into the Sea
CHAPTER 27:
The Return
CHAPTER 28:
Molly’s Turn
CHAPTER 29:
Abandon Ship
CHAPTER 30:
A Helping Hand
CHAPTER 31:
The Lagoon
CHAPTER 32:
The Wreck of the
Never Land
CHAPTER 33:
Land Ho!
CHAPTER 34:
Reunited
CHAPTER 35:
Into the Jungle
CHAPTER 36:
Getting Close
CHAPTER 37:
Heavy Like a Trunk
CHAPTER 38:
The Transformation
CHAPTER 39:
Escape
CHAPTER 40:
Captured
CHAPTER 41:
“We’ll Think of Something”
CHAPTER 42:
“It’s Here”
CHAPTER 43:
Visitors
CHAPTER 44:
Parting Ways
CHAPTER 45:
The Watchers
CHAPTER 46:
Something in There
CHAPTER 47:
A Magic Island
CHAPTER 48:
The Law
CHAPTER 49:
Into the Cave
CHAPTER 50:
Eyes in the
Dark
CHAPTER 51:
“Bird!”
CHAPTER 52:
Mister Grin
CHAPTER 53:
The Power
CHAPTER 54:
Slank’s Plan
CHAPTER 55:
A Close Call
CHAPTER 56:
Capsized
CHAPTER 57:
An Old Friend
CHAPTER 58:
Crossroads
CHAPTER 59:
Ammm’s Message
CHAPTER 60:
Too Quick for a Cloud;
Too Big for a Bird