Notes
Malachi, aged 11, after he finds a mysterious ship ina bottle on the shore.Life with Dad has been pretty sad and dull sinceMalachi's mother died, so he decides to keep theship secret - a secret that gets even more excitingwhen he discovers that things inside the bottle canchange. The ship hoists its sails and weighs anchor,sailors come and go, cargo is loaded andpreparations made for a voyage.The discovery prompts Malachi to have an adventureof his own. He stows away in the back of a truck tojoin a protest in a forest that he's seen on TV. Butanother discovery - that he is sharing his journeywith pirates, both in the bottle and the truck -begins to make the trip more complicated. Andthat's not to mention the pig...
