Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2013. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book for young readers by award winning novelist Valerie Martin and her niece, children's poet Lisa Martin. "Cecil and Anton are as different as port and starboard. Cecil, stocky and black with white patches, thirsts for seafaring adventure as he roams the docks of his harborside home, taking day trips on fishing boats. Slim, gray Anton prefers listening to the sailors shanties at the town saloon. But one day when Anton goes to port, hes taken to be a ratter on a ship bound for the high seas. Knowing little of the wide open ocean that lies beyond the harbor, Cecil boards another ship in hopes of finding Anton. But what begins as a rescue mission turns into a pair of high-seas adventures. Anton takes on a fierce rat, outwits hungry birds, and forges a forbidden friendship, while Cecil meets dolphins and whales and finds himself in a pirate raid." Illustrated with several full-page black and white drawings by Kelly Murphy. 213 pp. ISBN: 9781616202460.