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21) The cat's table
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Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table" - as far from the Captain's Table as can be - with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed...
22) Seafire
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Series
Language
English
Description
After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, whose lives have been turned upside down by Aric and his men. The crew has one misson: stay alive, and take down Aric's armed and armored fleet. But when Caledonia's best friend and second-in-command...
23) Stormbreak
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this epic conclusion to the Seafire trilogy, ... Caledonia Styx will risk everything--her heart, her crew, and even her life--to defeat Lir and take back the Bullet Seas once and for all"--
24) The invaders
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hal and the other Herons face many perils as they track down the pirates who stole Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal.
25) Everlasting
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In 1855, seventeen-year-old Camille sets out from San Francisco, California, on her last sea voyage before entering a loveless marriage, but when her father's ship is destroyed, she and a friend embark on a cross-Australian quest to find her long-lost mother who holds a map to a magical stone.
27) Polaris
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"In the 1830s Owen Ward is cabin boy on the "Polaris," a ship on a voyage of scientific exploration, when illness and a mutiny off the coast of Brazil cause the adult crew to abandon the ship, leaving the handful of young cabin attendants and deckhands behind. The young seafarers are determined to bring their ship to safety, but when one of them disappears they begin to suspect that there is something deadly on board with them"--
28) Star-crossed
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Having been discovered as a stowaway as she tries to reach Barbados in 1760 to claim her father's estate, teenaged English orphan Patricia struggles to survive by learning to be a ship's doctor and by disguising herself as a man when necessary.
29) Immortal war
Author
Series
Vampirates volume 6
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When the Pirate Federation and Nocturnals form an alliance to battle the renegade Vampirates, twins Connor and Grace Tempest each have important roles to play in the war--he as a pirate warrior and she as a powerful healer working with the war-wounded.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When the Imagination Station sends time-traveling cousins Patrick and Beth to a ship that is captured by the British during the Revolutionary War, they are befriended by James Forten, a free Black of Philadelphia, and help save the life of an imprisoned boy dying of scurvy. Includes a secret word puzzle.
Author
Series
Adventures of Pug volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Pug is going on a seafaring adventure. He's had jam tarts for breakfast. He's wearing a smart sailor suit. There's just one problem. Pug is afraid of the water!"--
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Xiang and Anh--ages sixteen and seventeen--hunt the South China Sea for the lost treasure of the fabled pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao.
36) Snake bite
Author
Series
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 5
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and taken to China, young Sherlock Holmes enjoys adventure on the high seas before encountering a puzzling case of three men bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai. Includes historical notes.
37) Gentle rogue
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
When Georgina Anderson sails to London in search of her fiance and finds him happily married to someone else, she dresses as a cabin boy aboard a ship bound for America and falls for the ship's arrogant owner.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.
40) The windflower
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Determined to aid the cause of American freedom, lovely Merry Wilding embarks on a dangerous mission to England only to fall into the hands of Devon Crandall, a pirate and mysterious British spy.
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