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1) Fable
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Series
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Fable joins the young, motley crew of the Marigold to escape the island where her father abandoned her, but she quickly realizes life off the island is more dangerous than she imaged.
2) Billy Budd
Author
Language
English
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Description
The classic story in which a handsome young sailor is sentenced to die for accidentally killing an officer.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 9
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In 1807, having survived a typhoon in the East Indies, Jacky Faber makes her way to London to seek a pardon for herself and her betrothed, Jaimy Fletcher, who, posing as a highwayman, is trying to avenge her supposed death.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 7
Language
English
Description
In 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.
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Series
Imagination station volume 14
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.
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Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 9
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Follow the Brotherband in a battle against an Iberian pirate raiding ship in the latest exciting tale in the Brotherband Chronicles from John Flanagan, author of the internationally bestselling Ranger's Apprentice series! 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,...
7) The Caldera
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 7
Language
English
Description
In Hallasholm, Stig is contesting the annual Maktig competition to decide Skandia's greatest warrior. But a late-night knock on the door brings someone Stig never expected to see again, along with a request the Herons are hard-pressed to refuse: a rescue mission of epic proportions. Across the ocean, the southern city-state of Byzantos is plagued by a crew of pirates who've kidnapped the son of Empress Justina. Slipping out of Hallasholm under the...
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Series
Deathlands volume 118
Language
English
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Description
"In a nuclear wasteland where death and destruction are the norm, Ryan Cawdor and his fellow survivors seek out refuge while looking to one another for protection. Civilization no longer exists in the barren Deathlands. There is only the will to survive and the dim hope of a promised land. Taken captive on a ship in the former Caribbean, Ryan and his companions must work as part of the crew or perish at the hands of the captain. But the mutant in...
9) Stormbreak
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Series
Seafire trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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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"--
10) The ghostfaces
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 6
Language
English
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.
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Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 4
Language
English
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Description
With their honor restored, Hal and his fellow Herons leave Skandia again on a new mission - to track down and stop Hal's nemesis, Tursgud, a bullying youth-turned vicious pirate and slave trader.
12) Seafire
Author
Series
Seafire trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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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...
13) Alphaboat
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text full of puns tells the story of the letters of the alphabet sailing off to look for a buried treasure.
14) A sailor returns
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Brotherband Chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2012], c2012
Language
English
Description
Determined to recover the Adomal and to prevent the pirate Zavac from doing more damage, Hal and his brotherband crew pursue Zavac to the lawless fortress of Ragusa where, if Hal is to succeed, he will have to go beyond his brotherband training and face the pirate one-on-one in a fight to the finish.
Author
Series
The Brotherband Chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012
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."
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Hal, his Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan have freed the twelve Araluens sold into slavery. Returning to Araluen, Gilan is given a new mission by King Duncan: protect his daughter's life. Princess Cassandra has survived one attempt on her life already, and now whispers of a second attempt have reached the kingdom. A deadly sect known as the Scorpion Cult is thought to be behind the assassination threat.
20) Snake bite
Author
Series
Sherlock Holmes: the legend begins volume 5
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 5
Sherlock Holmes the legend begins volume 5
Young Sherlock Holmes volume 5
Sherlock Holmes the legend begins 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.