Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
In this fast-moving adventure, we learn about Peter, an orphan from London, and his friends who are put aboard a ship, the Neverland, to become servants to an evil king on a faraway island. Once he is aboard the ship, he meets Molly, a girl about his own age, who befriends him. This book takes Peter and his friends from London to a desert island far out at sea. Along the way, we find pirates, thieves, shipwrecks, mermaids, savages, a crocodile, and a treasure chest. These adventures serve as a prequel to J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and show us how Peter and the “lost boys” come to be on their island. This was an action-filled story that was hard to put down.