Theme: Shipwrecks

Hurricane Dancers

By Book Importer | Published: May 3, 2011

Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado—half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between [...]

Descriptors: Awards, Caribbean, Fantasy, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Newbery, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , » 1 Comment

Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes

By Book Importer | Published: February 14, 2011

In 1679, a French ship called theGriffonleft Green Bay on Lake Michigan, bound for Niagara with a cargo of furs. Neither theGriffonnor the five-man crew was ever seen again. Though theGriffonrs”sfate remains a mystery, its disappearance was probably the result of the first shipwreck on a Great Lake. Since then, more than six thousand vessels, [...]

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Everlasting

By Book Importer | Published: December 17, 2010

Sailing aboard her father’s ship is all seventeen-year-old Camille Rowen has ever wanted. But as a lady in 1855 San Francisco, her future is set: marry a man she doesn’t love in order to preseve her social standing. On her last voyage before the wedding, Camille learns the mother she has always believed dead is [...]

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Marooned: The Strange But True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In 1704, Alexander Selkirk was voyaging across the South Pacific when, after arguing with the ship’s captain, he was put ashore—alone—on an uninhabited island. Equipped with little more than a musket and his wits, Selkirk not only survived in complete solitude for more than four years, but to came to be quite comfortable and happy. [...]

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