23 Vocabulary words with Definitions and Example Sentences. Quiz and Key also included. The exciting historical novel The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle tells the story of a sheltered and naive young teenager who suddenly finds herself crossing the ocean from England to America in 1832, without her parents or a guardian on board with her. Although the ship's captain protects and befriends her, she is appalled at his cruelty toward his sailors, and eventually she ends up joining a mutiny.