"Episode One: What’s Right in Front of Us" from the Windward Ho! The Pirate's Code (Book Four) collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Windward Ho! The Pirate's Code (Book Four) collection.
It's called "Episode One: What’s Right in Front of Us."
As Val, boatswain of the Windward crew, reacclimatizes herself to regular life in her normal home, she begins to observe a few mysterious happenings. Who is leaving top-of-the-line tools on her desk? What is that strange smell she keeps noticing? And is any of this related to her life as a pirate?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. It's Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. Welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. |
| 0:14.1 | So this week's featured story has been recommended by not just one, but two Sparkle listeners, |
| 0:22.2 | sister and brother, Ellie and Milo. |
| 0:26.0 | So they've picked an entire collection, |
| 0:28.6 | and I'm going to play the first story of that collection. |
| 0:32.9 | But before I do, I want to say, |
| 0:34.7 | this collection comes from a larger series called Windward Ho. Windward Ho. Windward |
| 0:39.9 | Ho is about a group of brave and adventurous pirate girls. If you haven't ever listened to Windward |
| 0:46.4 | Ho, it's for ages seven and up, and these stories are delightful. And there's lots to listen to. |
| 0:52.0 | There are seven books in the Windward Ho series. We call them books. And there's lots to listen to. There are seven books in the Windward |
| 0:55.0 | host series. We call them books and an extra collection just for Halloween. We're jumping to book |
| 1:01.2 | four for today's feature, but you can always go back on Sparkle Stories and listen to the |
| 1:06.7 | entire grouping of collections. Okay, before I introduce you to Ellie and Milo, I want to say, |
| 1:14.7 | if you're not yet a Sparkle subscriber, consider joining us. We have over 1,500 original stories |
| 1:22.9 | in our library, and there's so much good listening for summertime or wintertime if you're in the |
| 1:28.6 | Southern Hemisphere. This story is just a tiny slice of the goodness that we have in that library. |
| 1:35.4 | Everyone starts for free. So go to SparklStories.com and click the button at the top right that says |
| 1:41.9 | start free trial. And you can listen to it as much as you like, |
| 1:46.5 | anytime you like. Okay, now here are Ellie and Milo. Hi, I'm Ellie. And I'm Milo. We live in Black |
| 1:56.6 | Mountain North Carolina. We chose what's right in front of us, |
| 2:02.2 | Winward Ho, the Pirates Code Book 4. |
| 2:05.4 | Because Pee the Monkey is really funny |
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