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100 1 _aAspinwall, Marguerite,
_d1888-1982
245 1 4 _aThe sea girl
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-12
508 _aRoger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"The sea girl : A tale of Nantucket in the clipper ship days" by Aspinwall is a historical adventure novel written in the early 20th century. Set on pre–Civil War Nantucket, it follows spirited Erica Folger, a captain’s daughter who yearns to go to sea amid clippers and whalers. When her twin cousin Lister disappears in Canton and a powerful Chinese patron enters the picture, the tale points toward a maritime mystery entwined with family loyalty and a young girl’s courage. The opening of the story introduces Erica atop her aunt’s house in October, boldly cutting her hair short and dreaming of the ocean, while her cousins—twins Lister and Tommy—debate which will ship out as a cabin boy. After Tommy wins the chance, Erica entrusts him with a jade seal from her Chinese “godfather,” Sun Li; but a moonlit rescue on the wharf leaves Tommy with a broken leg, and Lister takes the berth instead. Visits with a genial Quaker captain, preparations for the voyage, and Lister’s departure give way to a wintry Christmas season—and the arrival of two orphaned cousins, sullen Milly and sunny little Barbee, who unsettle the household. Through the winter Milly keeps apart while Barbee charms everyone, and the family anxiously awaits the clipper’s return. Then the captain comes back without Lister: the boy vanished in Canton, and Sun Li—revealed as a powerful official—promises a thorough search and swift justice. Erica and Tommy must help break the news to Lister’s mother, and in that moment Milly shows unexpected tenderness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928
653 _aTeenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aNantucket (Mass.) -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aClipper ships -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aDunkelberger, Ralph D.,
_d1894-1965
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39076002630999
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76490
999 _c117215
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