A rousing old-fashioned adventure, The Dagger Quick is the story of twelve-year-old Christopher, a boy with a clubfoot who is seemingly doomed to follow in the footsteps of his father as a cooper in seventeenth-century England. Yet, Christopher longs for more. But after his mother is kidnapped, his father is murdered and Christopher is blamed for the crime, he has no choice but to set off on a dangerous seafaring voyage with bounty hunters on his trail and his only ally an uncle he hardly knows; an uncle who is an infamous pirate and the only man ever crazy enough to steal from the equally infamous Governor of Jamaica. Interest Level: 3-6 Reading Level: 4.2 ATOS Book Level: 4.6 AR Interest Level: MG AR Points: 11 AR Quiz: 143701EN Reading Counts Level: 4.3 Reading Counts Points: 18 Lexile Measure: 690.