Adventures on Amelia Island
Jane R. Wood
- Reading
- Read together if that suits your reader, and talk about the cemetery, ghost tales or island setting as you go.
- Themes
- History and setting: The children visit a nineteenth-century fort and an ancient cemetery amid Amelia Island legends. The fort and cemetery connect the adventure with Amelia Island’s history and setting.
- What is real?: Katy meets a pirate, and the premise asks whether he is real or imagined; local ghost tales also feature. The uncertain pirate encounter gives the adventure a mystery strand.
- Worth knowing
- An ancient cemetery, ghost tales and a pirate encounter bring eerie and mysterious elements into the adventure.