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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale set at the height of Europe's belle époque era follows the experiences of a young tutor in the household of one of Amsterdam's most prominent families who transforms his employers' lives through his charm and sensuality.
103) Irish escape
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1876, after eight years of incarceration at Fremantle Prison in Western Australia, six Irish political prisoners escaped to America on board the American whaler Catalpa. Under the pretext of a whaling voyage, the Catalpa and its courageous and unassuming captain, George Smith Anthony, were part of an ambitious plan to liberate the prisoners. Their story is one of swashbuckling adventure and heroism.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"November 1914. Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of The Resolute-a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now marooned on ice one hundred miles from the shore of the continent. An eighteen-year-old American, Clara has told the crew she's a twenty-one-year-old Canadian. Since the war broke out, sentiment toward Americans has not been the most favorable, and Clara will be underestimated enough simply for being a woman without...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 370 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers...
107) Saturdays at sea
Author
Series
Castle Glower volume 5
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After traveling to the seaside kingdom of Lilah's betrothed prince, Lulath, Celie and her companions are busy training griffins, enjoying wedding festivities, and finishing construction of a grand ship built from parts of the Castle. But on their maidenvoyage, the Ship steers them far off course into uncharted waters"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Huddled below deck, battling stormy seas and hunger & Joined by two cartoon flies and their factual narrative infused with kid-friendly fun, readers feel the Pilgrims' hardships first-hand as the Mayflower makes its long, historic journey across the Atlantic from England to America."--
109) The ex-husband
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking a personal assistant position for an extravagant-and mysterious-engagement party on board a superyacht, former con artist Charlotte becomes trapped with someone who knows her past and is hell-bent on making her pay for it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
368 pages.
Language
English
Description
It's lady's maid Louisa Cannon's wedding day, but the fantasy is shattered shortly after when she is approached by a secretive man asking her to spy on Diana Mitford-who is having an affair with the infamous Oswald Mosley-and her sister Unity. Thus as summer 1933 dawns, Louisa finds herself accompanying the Mitfords on a glitzy cruise, full of the starriest members of Society. But the waters run red when a man is found attacked. Back in London, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
78 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What do you know about the sinking of the Titanic? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived... series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is the perfect partner for the classroom and for history-loving...
112) Beautiful wild
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vida Hazzard can see her future: aboard the heralded "Millionaire's Ship of the West," she'll charm the young scion Fitzhugh Farrar, resulting in a proposal of marriage. But Vida didn't plan on Fitz's best friend Sal, a rough-around-the-edges boy with a talent for getting under her skin. Nor did she anticipate a hurricane dashing their ship to pieces, along with her dreams. Stranded on an island with both Fitz and Sal, Vida is torn between the...
113) Hostage three
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Amy, her father, and her stepmother become hostages when Somalian pirates seize their yacht, but although she builds a bond with one of her captors it becomes brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things.
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