Book 8: The Timekeeper

by Rob Kidd

Book Overview

Meet Jack Sparrow and his young pirate friends as they embark on a thrilling journey on the high seas. Their goal: to locate and procure the legendary Sword of Cort s, which will grant them unimaginable power. Time is about to go all funny for Jack Sparrow and his faithful crew. Fitzwilliam P. Dalton III's beloved timepiece has always been valuable to him. But it has suddenly become valuable to a lot more people--including some of the Barnacle's crew's...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599615304
• ISBN13: 9781599615301
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Chapter Books
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Big hit with a seven year old

A little boy who doesn't like to read much is entranced by these Jack Sparrow books. They're well written for kids with a sense of adventure. Like the Hardy Boys or a dozen other series before them, they deliver a consistent and familiar character in cleverly worked plots. The one thing I'd like to change would be to add few more illustrations. All you get here is the illustration on the cover.

pirates of the carribean

The shipment was on time. Honest description of the product. I got what I was hoping to get, it was received sooner than anticipated. My 11year-old son for whom this book was purchased, was especially happy to get the book wihtin three days. Will most likely purchase other products from this seller.

The Timekeeper

I question whether Rob Kidd actually exists. For the Disney people to have come up with William Kidd would have been too obvious. So they came up with Robert, which is just as 17th century sounding a name as William. This being said my nephew seems to love these books, which is good. He seems to have little interest in the true literary swashbuckling classic "Treasure Island," which is unfortunate. I do not think, however, that we should blame Disney and its team of Kidd writers for that...yet. As I said, my nephew loves this series and while they are not R. L. Stevenson they are mildly entertaining and not long, so no a lot of time is consumed reading them. There are some definite holes in the plots and inconsistencies but they are not the kind of thing that 9-year-olds typically tend to overlook. I would love to be reading something of more literary merit with my nephew but that is not to be, not at this time anyway. In the end it is not the worst book you could choose to bond with a child over.

The Timekeeper - Jack Sparrow #8

Both my son and I love this series. Even as a young man Captain Jack is true to himself. He hasn't changed a bit!!!!