
From the mast, Polly Roger spots a lighthouse with a broken lamp. Without it, small boats cannot find the cove after dark.
A four-page pirate adventure about buried gold and a lighthouse that guides everyone home.


From the mast, Polly Roger spots a lighthouse with a broken lamp. Without it, small boats cannot find the cove after dark.

Captain Beakon’s treasure map promises gold beneath a crooked palm. Polly imagines a mountain of crackers all for herself.

They reach the rocky shore and uncover the X as the sun begins to sink. The dark lighthouse waits across the bay.

The chest is full of gold coins. Polly keeps one shiny coin for the ship and spends the rest repairing the light that guides everyone home.
The lighthouse.
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