Pirate Academy: Missing at Sea

From Justin Somper, award-winning author of the Vampirates series, comes the second book in this new swashbuckling fantasy adventure series.

At the elite Pirate Academy, it's only been a few weeks since the Barracuda class's run-in with the dangerous League of True Pirates. But now they have more pressing matters at hand, like the upcoming Oceans Bound weekend! It's the first time the class will be given the chance to man their own crews and sail the seas without their teachers, and no one's more excited than Jacoby, Jasmine, and Neo.

As the Barracudas set sail and begin navigating the complex trail of tasks left for them by their Pirate Academy captains, the obstacles quickly become more and more treacherous. Soon it's clear: someone else has taken control of Oceans Bound. It's going to take everything they've got for the plucky young pirates to complete the course and triumph against their fiendish enemy.

Author: Justin Somper
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Published: 02/17/2026
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9798217050451
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure | Pirates
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)

About the Author

Justin Somper is the award-winning author of ten books for middle-grade and teen readers, including the Vampirates series, which has been published in thirty-five countries and twenty-five languages, as well as Allies & Assassins and its sequel, A Conspiracy of Princes. A Brit by birth, Justin relocated to Perth, Western Australia, with his Aussie husband, PJ, in 2022. Here, Justin has been writing the Pirate Academy adventures--in between refreshing dips in the Indian Ocean, inspiring visits to lighthouses, and long-overdue sailing lessons. Learn more at https: //www.vampirates.co.uk/.

Teo Skaffa has lived in many places but currently lives in an abandoned school building in the outskirts of the city of Groningen in the north of the Netherlands. Besides making art, he likes the color pink, synthesizers, and making music with outdated technology under the name A GHOST IN THE WOODS. He does NOT like room-temperature watermelon. He likes drawing creepy-cute atmospheric scenes and characters, and is grateful that he's able to make a living by drawing, especially since he's not particularly good at anything else.