Having come into contact with Starstuff from the trunk, Peter flies back and hurls the trunk overboard. Attempting to dispose of the trunk with Molly, Peter is thrown overboard just as the storm hits. Molly enlists Peter to assist in throwing the trunk overboard before Black Stache arrives.īlack Stache and his men race against a monster storm to intercept the Never Land. Molly's family is revealed to be members of a secret society known as the Starcatchers, who are tasked with keeping Starstuff out of the wrong hands. Molly confides to Peter that the trunk contains 'starstuff,' magical dust of extraordinary power that falls from the heavens. Black Stache and Aster realize that the trunk is a decoy and the actual treasure is on board the Never Land. Black Stache opens the trunk only to find it filled with sand. Black Stache manages to run down and board the Wasp, and Leonard Aster, Molly's father, attempts and fails to escape with the trunk. Meanwhile, the feared pirate Black Stache hears of a similar trunk containing a great treasure on board another ship, the Wasp. While searching for food, Peter encounters a mysterious trunk and its guardian, Molly Aster, a girl about his age. In 19th century London, orphaned boys Peter, James, Thomas, Prentiss, and Tubby Ted are shipped out on the decrepit ship Never Land. A series of Never Land chapter books for younger readers is based on the novels.

The book is followed by four sequels: Peter and the Shadow Thieves (2006), Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (2007), Peter and the Sword of Mercy (2009), and The Bridge to Never Land (2011). Written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, and illustrated by Greg Call, the book is a reinterpretation of the character Peter Pan, who first appeared in J.

Peter and the Starcatchers is a children's novel that was published by Hyperion Books, a subsidiary of Disney, in 2004.

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