Pugwash Aloft
Oddly enough, the children were mildly indifferent to Pugwash Aloft, but my sister was very stirred by this one. She just could not buy into Tom the Cabin Boy's plan to save Pugwash from Cut-throat Jake's clutches. "What good is it to be saved if in doing so the ship has been disabled! Now they're adrift! This was a stupid plan!" Perhaps I should have warned her that sometimes books for children can be upsetting...