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1) The sea wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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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
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...
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Oregon has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as ship captain Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate--and as perilous--as any...
7) Sacred stone
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Clive Cussler debuted his new series, The Oregon Files, with the incredible adventure of Golden Buddha. Now he follows that triumph with Sacred Stone, a rollicking new tale featuring the enigmatic captain of The Oregon, Juan Cabrillo. In the remote wastes of Greenland, an ancient artifact possessing catastrophic radioactive power is unearthed. But the astounding find puts the world at risk. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter,...
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Narrowly escaping following a mission on the Congo River, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon rescue beautiful Sloane Macintyre--who is looking for a lost ship that may be carrying a fortune in diamonds--when her boat is attacked off the African coast and find themselves up against a deranged militant who plans to launch a devastating force of nature against those who oppose him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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Embark on a thrilling high-sea adventure with Captain Ahab and his relentless pursuit of the legendary white whale, Moby Dick. Set sail on the whaling ship, the Pequod, as the crew grapples with the dangers of the deep and the madness of their vengeful captain. A timeless tale of obsession, courage, and the ultimate battle of man versus nature unfolds on the vast ocean expanse. Brimming with rich symbolism and unforgettable characters, "Moby-Dick"...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
12) Dark watch
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas...
13) Kidnapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
'Originally written as a boys' adventure novel, Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped has received praise from a range of writers, including Henry James and Jorge Luis Borges. Set around events in eighteenth century Scotland, such as the "Appin Murder" that happened in the wake of the Jacobite Rising, it skillfully and sympathetically portrays the political situation of the time. A sequel, titled Catriona, was published in 1893.'-From Amazon
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Underwater divers Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala battle a secret Spanish brotherhood which is plotting to regain Spanish territory taken by the U.S. The action ranges from the decks of a sunken passenger liner in the Atlantic to an underwater Mayan temple. By the author of Flood Tide.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 8
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Now rich, Jacky Faber has purchased the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the Atlantic, and believing she has been absolved of past sins against the Crown, she docks in London, where she is arrested and sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia.
16) Pirates!: the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The inauspicious beginnings of Midshipman Hornblower and his spectacular rise to Lieutenant are described in this novel of adventure on the high seas.
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