About the Author

Kai Meyer is the author of many highly acclaimed and popular books for adults and young adults in his native Germany. Pirate Curse, the first book in the Wave Walkers trilogy, was praised by Booklist as a fast-paced fantasy featuring plenty of action and suspense. The Water Mirror, the first book in the Dark Reflections Trilogy, was named a School Library Journal Best Book, a Locus Magazine Recommended Read, a Book Sense Children's Pick, and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. It received starred reviews in both School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. School Library Journal has called Meyer an expert at creating fantastical worlds filled with unusual and exotic elements. For more information please visit his website at www.kaimeyer.co

Reviews

A richly imagined world filled with thieving pirates, lovely ladies, and strange magical creatures. -- School Library Journal

Awash in swashbuckling fun. -- Kirkus reviews

Gr 6-9-Fourteen-year-old Jolly is a "polliwog." She can literally walk on water. Raised by a pirate captain, she loves her life until Bannon and his crew are betrayed and only Jolly escapes. She is washed up on a tiny island, discovered by Munk (another polliwog), and quickly drawn into the plans of the mysterious Ghost Trader, who insists that the very existence of the world is threatened by the imminent return of the Maelstrom. Somehow, the polliwogs hold the secret to defeating the ancient malevolent force, even if they are only teens. As he demonstrated in The Water Mirror (S & S, 2005), Meyer is an expert at creating fantastical worlds filled with unusual and exotic elements. He vividly renders a richly imagined world filled with thieving pirates, lovely ladies, and strange magical creatures.-Melissa Moore, Union University Library, Jackson, TN Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

A richly imagined world filled with thieving pirates, lovely ladies, and strange magical creatures. -- School Library Journal
Awash in swashbuckling fun. -- Kirkus reviews