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The House of Windjammer
V.A. Richardson
Fiction (Series)
Ages 12 and up
Bloomsbury, 2003, 1-58234-811-1
  Adam Windjammer is happy to admire his father’s new ship Draco and to do his best to get out of his lessons. He is certainly not ready to think about his responsibilities as the heir to his family’s merchant business which has been prospering in Amsterdam for more than one hundred years. Then, in just a few days everything changes. Adam’s well respected and powerful father, Hercules Windjammer, learns that their latest fleet of ships which sailed for the New World has been lost and that the House of Windjammer is now in dire financial difficulties. Because of this calamity Hercules Windjammer collapses and dies and Adam is now the head of the House.
  Before Adam really has time to grasp what has happened the moneylender who gave the House a large loan for the New World expedition demands the return of his loan. Hugo Van Helsen is clearly out to destroy the House of Windjammer and there doesn’t seem to be anything that Adam can do to stop him. To make matters worse Adam’s bumbling and self centered Uncle Augustus us bent on making a deal with a moneylender even if it means that Adam’s family might end up on the street without a penny to their name. Then the House’s clerk Gerrit offer’s some hope. He has bought a treasure of some sort, “a black pearl,” which might be able to save the House of Windjammer. All Adam has to do is to find it the pearl before it is too late.
  This gripping and superbly written work of historical fiction set in seventeen century Holland is both highly entertaining and it provides readers with a fascinating picture of what it would have been like to live in Holland in the early 1600’s. Readers will get a sense of what merchant life was life, what the role of women was, how business was conducted, how much the world was changing at that time in history, and much more.
 

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