The Education of Patience GoodspeedWhen the "Morning Star" sets sail on the Pacific in 1836, fourteen-year-old Patience Goodspeed can't wait to be the assistant navigator. But when danger strikes, Captain Goodspeed whisks his children, Patience and Tad, and their aunt Anne off to a boarding school in Hawaii until the ship returns. Here Reverend Wiggins, the headmaster, thinks girls should study sewing instead of math. Then there's more trouble in paradise: Fanny Starbuck, a widow from Nantucket, is the silliest and frilliest etiquette teacher ever. And Patience discovers that Fanny's been writing love letters to the ship; fetching a proposal from Papa, for sure! Sometimes growing up on dry land can be even rockier than a voyage on the sea, but Patience is about to learn that true friendship will sail her through it. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 14 |
Section 3 | 28 |
Section 4 | 45 |
Section 5 | 54 |
Section 6 | 63 |
Section 7 | 74 |
Section 8 | 89 |
Section 15 | 180 |
Section 16 | 188 |
Section 17 | 197 |
Section 18 | 210 |
Section 19 | 227 |
Section 20 | 235 |
Section 21 | 250 |
Section 22 | 260 |
Section 9 | 94 |
Section 10 | 103 |
Section 11 | 114 |
Section 12 | 136 |
Section 13 | 152 |
Section 14 | 174 |
Section 23 | 269 |
Section 24 | 281 |
Section 25 | 297 |
Section 26 | 301 |
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