Nathan loves pirates - his days are spent dreaming about them and wondering what it would be like to be one.

Anything to brighten up his grey and dreary existence.

So when Tamo White, the son of a real-life pirate, suggests that Nathan go home with him to Madagascar, it is too good a chance to miss.

There's just one problem . . . Nathan's sister, Maud. He can't leave her behind but will she really be able to survive in a strange land full of pirates?

You never know - perhaps she'll adapt better than Nathan, or even she herself, could ever have imagined . . .