Time Machine 4: Sail With Pirates

Sail ahoy! Travel back to the 17th century and become a swashbuckling pirate! Your mission is to find the wreck of the richest silver ship ever to sink in the Caribbean Sea, and bring back some of the treasure.

The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.

JIM GASPERINI reviewed interactive computer fiction for Electronic Fun, and published the history of a medieval French artisan’s guild in Museum. He has been a videotape editor, a busker, a traveling book salesman, and a literary agent, and made his operatic debut in the 1983 Metropolitan Opera production of Don Carlo as
Arquebusier (spear carrier). He resides in New York. He is the author of Time Machine 1, Secret
of the Knights.

ALEX NINO is an internationally respected illustrator. His work has appeared in such publications as Metal Hurlant in France and Starlog in America, and in hundreds of magazines in his native Philippines. His paintings and illustrations have been published as portfolios, book jackets, and graphic stories. He is also the winner of an Inkpot Award.