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Reader reviewed by EshInoBi

I read all three books of the Far-Flung Adventures series before writing this review so I could compare each one. Of all of them, I loved this one the most. This introduced it; I also loved how each book had something, though very little, to do with the other books. If you see the covers of the other books in the series, you can see the logo `Crane and Sons` on many of the inventions. Fergus Crane is 9, and he lives with his mother. His father went somewhere and didn`t come back. His mother earns little money at the bakery she runs, and also a bit of money from little jobs she does for the "The Fateful Voyage Trading Co." He goes to a school, on a ship, with 4 other children. The school is nothing like other schools, which I found fascinating, except for the fact that the children weren`t treated very well. Fergus is a `spare` in the training they do, so they leave him when they go on a `fieldtrip`. When the fieldtrip comes, he discovers the `teachers` were the unfaithful crew of his father`s and also realizes that they`re going to use the children to get money, but leave them to die. With some inventions his uncle made, he might save the children. This was a fast-paced book, full of realizations and discoveries.