The Island of Lost Horses. Stacy Gregg

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      First published in hardback and paperback in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2014

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      Source ISBN: 9780007580262

      Ebook Edition © 2014 ISBN: 9780007580286

      Version: 2014-08-30

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

The Diary of Beatriz Ortega

The Guardian of the Words

Great Abaco

Voodoo Queen

The Mudpit

A Shadow on the Sun

Annie’s Crib

       If They Catch You…

       Medicine Hat

       The Diary of Felipa Molina

       The Duchess

       F.M. Diary Entry, 10th September 1493

       F.M. Diary Entry, 17th September 1493

       The Obeah

       F.M. Diary Entry, 18th September 1493

       F.M. Diary Entry, 19th September 1493

       Island Stallion

       F.M. Diary Entry, 20th September 1493

       Storm be Comin’

       F.M. Diary Entry, 24th September 1493

       F.M. Diary Entry, 27th September 1493

       F.M. Diary Entry, 24th October 1493

       Abandoned

       F.M. Diary Entry, 21st November 1493

       F.M. Diary Entry, 30th November 1493

       F.M. Diary Entry, 5th December 1493

       Night Voyage

       F.M. Diary Entry, 7th December 1493

       F.M. Diary Entry, 10th December 1494

       Chosen

       After the Storm

       Epilogue

       About the Author

       Other books by Stacy Gregg

       About the Publisher

       The Diary of Beatriz Ortega

      12^th April, 2014

      I am writing this as fast as I can. The doors on the Phaedra don’t lock, and Mom could walk in any moment. I have no privacy. I am the only twelve-year-old girl I know who has to share a room with her mom. I have pointed out how unfair it is, the way the jellyfish equipment takes up the whole front of the boat, but Mom won’t listen. Typical – the jellyfish get their own room and I don’t.

      I’m not trying to make excuses for my handwriting or anything, but if it is all scrawly that’s because my arm’s so trembly I can hardly hold the pen. I think it’s from gripping on to the tractor for so long. The entire way home I had to cling to the wheel arch, sitting up there behind Annie like a parrot perched on a pirate’s shoulder. The way she