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    Guys Read: Pirate: A Short Story from Guys Read: Thriller
    Guys Read: Pirate: A Short Story from Guys Read: Thriller
    Guys Read: Pirate: A Short Story from Guys Read: Thriller
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    Guys Read: Pirate: A Short Story from Guys Read: Thriller

    By Walter Dean Myers

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    Abdullah Syed Hari is fourteen years old. He loves his family and his friends. And he is a Somali pirate. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 20, 2011
    ISBN9780062112101
    Guys Read: Pirate: A Short Story from Guys Read: Thriller
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    Walter Dean Myers

    Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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      Book preview

      Guys Read - Walter Dean Myers

      GUYS READ

      Pirate

      Walter Dean Myers

      A Short Story from

      Guys Read: Thriller

      Edited and with an Introduction by Jon Scieszka

      With Illustration by Brett Helquist

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      Pirate by Walter Dean Myers

      Guys E-Read

      Biographies

      Back Ad

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      Pirate

      by Walter Dean Myers

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      My name is Abdullah Syed Hari. My great-grandfather was born in a gleaming white house just southeast of Marka. He was a fisherman who had worked those waters for all of his life. My grandfather, too, was a fisherman. His black hands were hard and the fingers twisted from years of pulling the nets into the boats, mending them in bad weather, and so full of salt that he could not feel my face except by turning his hands so that the backs would touch my cheek. My father’s gift was music and he played in the evenings after coming home from a day on the sea and the songs soothed me when I was a child. In the wars before I was born, clan against clan, friend against friend as Somalia tore itself apart, he was wounded and made cripple. I am Abdullah Syed Hari. I am a Muslim, the very servant of God. I am fourteen years of age. And I am a pirate.

      My father tells me that when the first foreign boats came, our fishermen didn’t think much of them. But soon we saw that

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