Who will be the Pirate of the Year? What is the cabin boy's secret? And how will Captain Spike escape from the dungeons of Rotter's Isle? Find out in these swashbuckling stories of ships, sharks and scheming on the high seas. Pirate Adventures is in Series One of Usborne Young Reading, which combines good stories with easy reading text. Series One titles are for children who have just started rading on their own, and are 48 pages (1000-1500 words) in lenght. They use fairy short, simple sentence and everyday vocabularyTypically. Series One books contain several short stories or one longer story devided into chapters.Subjects include classic fables and fairytales, original contemporary fiction and quirky histories.