Meet+the+Crew

Meet the crew of the Phoenix: Luke, Charla, Will, Lyssa, J.J. & Ian........ Click on the link below to take a personality quiz to see which character you are most like. Then read the character's description! [|Personality Quiz]

**Meet Luke Haggerty**  //"It isn't mine!"// That's Luke's only defense when the assistant principal pulls a small handgun out of his locker. If Mr. Sazio, the police, or the judge believed those three simple words, Luke would never even have heard of the //Phoenix.//  All through the trial he sits stone-faced. That was Reese's gun. Why doesn't Luke tell them? Sure, no one likes a tattle tale, but this is his //life!// And by the time the numbness wears off, the verdict is in: Guilty. The choice: six months in juvenile detention or Charting A New Course, a four-week sailing trip for troubled youth. Until he sets his feet on the deck planks of the //Phoenix//, Luke Haggerty doesn't know what trouble really is.

**Meet Will Greenfield**  //"If I survive this trip, I'll never cheat on another math test!"// Will is already making deals with himself before the //Phoenix// even pulls away from the dock. What could be more miserable than a month at sea when the bathtub makes you queasy? //"If I get through this, I swear I'll floss. Every night!// Four weeks trapped on a floating sardine can with a crew of wackos and juvenile delinquents. Seasickness, lousy food, and not so much as a deck of cards for entertainment. But the worst part, the real killer, is that //she// is going to be there!

**Meet Charla Swann**  High jump, balance beam, 100-meter freestyle, heptathlon. She's nationally ranked at all of them. And more. The most gifted athlete her coaches have ever seen. The perfect kid. What's she doing on this floating reformatory? The stress was building like steam just below the surface. Up at four a.m. to be in the pool by five. The drive to reach that next personal best. Her father and his ever-present stopwatch. The pressure to pick a single sport. //"It's your ticket, Charla!"// Her ticket out of a bleak neighborhood, with little money and even less hope. Her ticket to a better life. And then … disaster. As she steps aboard the //Phoenix//, Charla Swann reflects that her life could not possibly get any worse. She's wrong.

**Meet Lyssa Greenfield**  //"I fight with my brother."// No big deal. After all, what brothers and sisters //don't// fight? It's innocent enough. Definitely not worth sending two kids halfway around the world for Charting A New Course. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But when it comes to sibling warfare, the Greenfields boast a major-league resume: slashed bicycle tires, melted computer diskettes, incinerated school projects, sweaters unraveled to a ball of yarn, a milkshake full of Tabasco, cracked ribs, and a broken nose. The last two items on this list end in an unplanned trip to the hospital. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next trip for Lyssa and her brother //is// planned — twenty-one hours on planes, and then the //Phoenix//. Their mission: Learn to get along, or else. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a million years, no one could predict what "or else" would come to mean.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Meet Ian Sikorsky**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Computer geek? Straight-A student? TV-addicted couch potato? All of the above? Just what did this shy eleven-year-old do to get himself banished to the high seas on the //Phoenix//? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He's younger than the others, smaller, and ten times as scared. Ask him a question and he'll probably be too timid to answer. He very rarely raises his head to look anyone in the eye. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fact: This nerdy loner may very well be the difference between life and death for the entire crew. || ||


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Meet J.J. Lane**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> How could he blow it like that? A movie star's son. He has it all. Mansions. Money. Hollywood. Every day is like //Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous//. What does he have to rebel against? Why would he get himself into so much trouble that the only answer is Charting A New Course? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Boredom, maybe. A new stepmother every few years. Being raised first by nannies and later by a series of personal assistants to a world-renowned actor who is capable of playing any role except father to his own son. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then comes the day when J.J. climbs on his father's Harley Davidson, and the rest is front-page news. It's time for J.J. Lane to get out of town for awhile … || ||