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1) The sea wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An epic of action-filled excitement. Rescued from drowning, a pampered gentleman awakes in a special kind of hell. He's aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner outbound for months of hunting. Wolf Larson, the devilish captain, a fiendish crew, the cruel sea, and unlikely love make this tale immortal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart, is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
A nineteenth-entury science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
An American frigate tracks down a ship-sinking submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo.
6) Moby-Dick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick in this children's version of Melville's Moby Dick.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When young Jim Hawkins finds a mysterious map in a dead sailor's sea trunk, it marks the start of a thrilling treasure hunt and a very dangerous adventure. Accompanied by the local doctor and squire, he sets off on the high seas as a cabin-boy, determined to find the buried hoard. But they are not alone in their quest, a band of pirates -- led by the enigmatic, one-legged Long John Silver -- will stop at nothing to take back what they believe is theirs....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea where she gains control of a British warship and eventually becomes a privateer.
11) The cat's table
Author
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
A detailed account of the most famous mutiny in history aboard the H.M.S. Bounty in 1787 between Fletcher Christian and Captain Bligh. The Bounty was sent on a two-year voyage to the South seas to procure bread-fruit trees for transplanting to the West Indies as cheap food for slaves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When David goes out on his sailboat to scatter his recently deceased uncle's ashes in the Pacific, he is caught in a fierce storm and must survive many days on his own as he works out his feelings about life and his uncle.
16) Billy Budd
Author
Language
English
Description
The classic story in which a handsome young sailor is sentenced to die for accidentally killing an officer.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 4
Language
English
Description
The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element--and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century ...
19) Redburn, his first voyage ; White-jacket, or, The world in a man-of-war ; Moby-Dick, or, The whale
Author
Series
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. : Distributed to the trade by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
20) Golden Buddha
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Oregon Files series, Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his crew are hired by the US government to free Tibet from Chinese control...
The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo, board a brand new ship. It's a state-of-the-art seagoing marvel with unthinkable technology at its disposal. And it's designed to look...
The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo, board a brand new ship. It's a state-of-the-art seagoing marvel with unthinkable technology at its disposal. And it's designed to look...
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