The Seagirls of the Irene

Twelve-year-old AGGIE has never manned a steamboat on her own until she is forced to the wheel.  When she reunites with her younger sisters aboard the IRENE, their sixty-foot steamboat, the sisters are trapped with thugs intending to steal their boat.  As Aggie pilots the IRENE from port to port, conjuring up schemes to gain the upper hand, the sisters search for DADDY.   WILLA AWARD WINNER and San Diego Book Award Winner.
The Irene was built by the author's Great-Grandfather and  manned by his three young daughters. Aggie was the author's grandmother.  WILLA Judge Review:  What a great Western narrative and the Washington landscape and waterways are so well drawn that they become another character in the story.