About this Book

Buzzards Reach has had its fill of Spencer Thibedeau Piersford, a big little boy at ten years old. Teddy uses his size and sharp mind to intimidate and control those he can in Buzzards Reach, a mid-Eighteenth Century village along America’s colonial coast. His mother maintains a bubble of protection, constantly excusing him. The town sends him off to Captain Brimwall’s School, hoping he will change. He changed: improving his skills, he becomes head boy of the school. Returning to Buzzards Reach, he becomes mayor, the one job where he can control the whole town — until real pirates show up.