Moby Dick is a vast and dangerous white whale. An enemy for many years after the whale bit off his leg, the crazed Captain Ahab is obsessed with his quarry. Together with his extraordinary crew, Ahab braves the oceans of the world to hunt the fearsome Moby Dick. Geraldine McCaughrean is one of the most distinguished living children"s authors. She has won the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Children"s Novel Award (twice), and The Guardian Children"s Fiction Award. Geraldine"s most recent best-selling novel "The Kite Rider" was published to universal acclaim in March 2001.