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61) 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.
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.
64) 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
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"One of history's most notorious naval insurrections is re-created, as Kydd crosses the Mediterranean to a rendezvous with danger and returns to England-only to find himself caught up in the Nore Mutiny. Kydd is a loyal servant of the King, and he is expected to side with Naval authority against his friends, but how can he? Faced with an impossible decision of duty and conscience, he must find a way to save himself and his fellow sailors."--Amazon....
66) Black heart
Author
Series
Vampirates volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
While Connor and the Pirate Federation attempt to stop a new ship of vampirates, his twin sister Grace and their long-lost mother Sally reunite, and Sally reveals some news that is devastating for the twins.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
An enticing, newly illustrated collection of the enduringly popular Pippi stories. Since Pippi Longstocking was first published in 1950, the escapades of the incomparable Pippi,the girl with upside-down braids and no parents to tell her what to do, have delighted boys and girls alike. Now, for the first time, Pippi Longstocking, Pippi Goes on Board, andPippi in the South Seas are all together in one bumper volume, with new illustrations in full-color...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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.
69) 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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage. On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed...
71) Birds of prey
Author
Series
Courtney volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In 1667, Sir Francis Courteney and his son, Hal, voyage from the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to the Great Horn of Ethiopia, as they and their crew attempt to seize one of the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company en route from the Orient
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.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Living in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob lives in a two-story pineapple. Instead of taking a more logical approach to everyday challenges, SpongeBob usually approaches life in an unconventional way. Whether searching for the ultimate spatula to perfect his burger flipping technique at the Krusty Krab, or just hanging out with his best pal Patrick, SpongeBob's good intentions and overzealous approach to life usually create chaos in...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Rediker turns maritime history upside down, exploring the dramatic world of maritime adventure not from the perspective of admirals, merchants, and nation-states but from the viewpoint of commoners: sailors, slaves, indentured servants, pirates, and other outlaws from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. He reveals how the "motley" (ie: multiethnic) crews were a driving force behind the American Revolution; that pirates, enslaved...
Author
Series
Adventures of Trim volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trim looks for a way to help his crewmates without much success, but when he discovers a big problem on the ship, it is all hands on deck.
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Cook's Cook follows the 1768 journey of James Cook's H.M.S. Endeavour with his ship's cook, the one-handed John Thompson, as story teller. Through real recipes from the ship's galley, events on board and the places the ship traveled on its way to the Pacific, the book tells multiple stories. Here are stories of social class, hierarchy and race; stories of explorers and the people of the land; the story of one of the world's most famous explorers told...
Author
Series
Twisted journeys volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Readers can decide what happens in the plot by choosing different paths as they are presented, in this story about a young boy who accompanies his father on a sea voyage from England to the New World in the seventeenth century.
Author
Publisher
Anne Schwartz Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hope doesn't want to listen to her father's stories about his voyages at sea. She wants to be part of those stories! Now's her chance.... She will stow away on Papa's ship. But look! the wind has picked up, and the sky is darkening. Batten down the hatches! Could there be such a thing as an adventure that is too exciting? Join high-spirited Hope on a trip of alifetime in this exquisitely illustrated picture book that also captures the love between...
80) Fox and the box
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A fox sets out across the sea in a floating box on a grand adventure full of endless possibilities.
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