[PW] Children's Book About A Woman Pirate

[Janice Sellers]

This is from a reference list I'm on.  Any ideas?  It definitely
sounds like fiction.

> A patron came in at the weekend looking for a particular book -
> A children's book
> She read it about 12 years ago
> About an Irish Woman Pirate who travels to Scotland and the Caribbean
> The cover features the pirate and her pet tiger
> She participates in a running race against men and wins
> It was written by an Author who usually writes books for adults
>
> Anyone have any ideas? I've checked Novelist and looked on the net
> extensively. She thinks the pirate was named Ara, I asked her if it was
> based on Anne Bonny or Grania O'Malley but she didn't think so...