Neither Frankie nor his friends realize that the old football he won at a carnival game can take them to a magical place to play a match against a team of pirates and their parrot.
Michael Main
Captain Cropper sneered, revealing a couple of gold teeth. “So, landlubbers! Ready to face the finest team on the seven seas?”

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Variants

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  1. Frankie vs the Pirate Pillagers by Frank Lampard (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, June 2013).

Indexer Notes

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  1. Classification—It seems that Frankie and his pals are transported back to the time of the pirates, and this fits with later books in the series, so we have classified this story as having definite time travel. But other books in the series might have only travel through space. We shall see.