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21) A sailor returns
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Evan, an eleven-year-old boy in 1914 whose strict father has little time for him, is delighted when his long-lost grandfather returns, relates his many sea adventures, and hobbles around like Evan who has a club foot.
22) Polaris
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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"--
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 1
Description
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
24) Seafire
Author
Series
Seafire trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Follows Caledonia Styx, captain of her own ship, the Mors Navis, and its all-female crew as they strive to defeat the powerful fleet of Aric Athair, the vicious warlord who has taken their homes and families.
Author
Series
Chronicles of the black tulip volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
1st ed.
Description
"A young boy named Bren sets out on the high seas with a mysterious admiral to search for a legendary map that leads to an object of unspeakable power"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Lintang series volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
Lintang's dream of adventure on the high seas comes true when Captain Shafira invites her to join her pirate crew, but Lintang's best friend, Bayani, has stowed away and is keeping secrets.
29) Bloody Jack
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Formats
Description
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
30) Man-of-war
Author
Series
Description
Text and cutaway illustrations depict life aboard a British warship of the Napoleonic era, covering such topics as work, leisure, discipline, navigating, and fighting.
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume Book 6
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
U.S. edition.
Description
When a massive storm at sea blows the Brotherband crew off course to a land so far west Hal cannot recognize it from his maps, they face an unknown enemy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Whales, manatees, seals, dolphins, and sea otters are just some of the many mammals that have evolved over time in order to survive in the water. From Arctic waters to tropical seas, vivid photographs and surprising facts about these salt water mammals reveal:
• how these air breathing creatures have adapted to the water
• their underwater senses
• what they eat and how they raise their young
• cetaceans, pinnipeds, sea otters, sirenians,...
33) Pirates
Author
Description
Presents information about the lives and deeds of pirates and buccaneers, and includes sixteen step-by-step projects inspired by the pirate's life, as well as a cross-section illustration of a pirate ship.
34) Lord Jim: a tale
Author
Series
Description
"With Lord Jim, first published in 1900, Joseph Conrad transformed a tale of seafaring adventure into a subtle study of the meaning of honor and courage, loyalty and betrayal. When Jim, an idealistic merchant seaman and ship’s officer, abandons the supposedly sinking Patna and its passengers, he dashes his youthful dreams of glory in a single stroke. Condemned in court for his impetuous act of cowardice, Jim relegates himself to a life roaming the...
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 8
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Jacky Faber, rich from her exploits diving for Spanish gold, has purchased the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the Atlantic. Believing she has been absolved of past sins against the Crown, Jacky docks in London to take on her crew, but is instead arrested and sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia.
To add insult to injury, the Lorelei Lee is confiscated to carry Jacky and more than 200 female convicts to populate...
To add insult to injury, the Lorelei Lee is confiscated to carry Jacky and more than 200 female convicts to populate...
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Hal and the other Herons face many perils as they track down the pirates who stole Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal"--
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press/Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Description
This novel follows the fortunes of Wesley Martin, a man who Kerouac said 'loved the sea with a strange, lonely love; the sea is his brother and sentences. He goes down.' Kerouac began this work not long after his first tour as a Merchant Marine on the S.S. Dorchester in the late summer of 1942 during which he kept a journal detailing the gritty daily routine of life at sea. Inspired by the trip, which exemplified Kerouac's love for adventure and the...
39) The Stern chase
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 9
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The Herons are home in Skandia—preparing to celebrate two of their own and working on sea trials in the newly constructed Heron. But during a short excursion, they encounter an Iberian pirate ship raiding the coast of Sonderland, so Hal and his crew take action." --Publisher.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 10
Pub. Date
[2012]
Formats
Description
Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.
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