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Adventures on the High Seas!
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. Avi
YA PB Avi
Mishaps and devious deeds have 12-year-old Charlotte sailing from England to Rhoade Island with an unhappy crew. The captain is malicious, and after there is mutiny on the ship, Charlotte changes from a proper young lady into a tomboyish sailor-and is accused of murder!
Stowaway Karen Hesse
YA Hesse
In 1767, Captain James Cook was sent by the British Navy on a secret mission: to look for a lost continent! 11-year-old Nicholas Young stows away on the Endeavour and tells the adventurous tales through his own eyes.
The Wreckers Iain Lawrence
YA Lawrence
In 18th Century Cornwall, some coastal villages made their living by luring ships in from sea with false beacons to make the ships crash on the rocks. Then the villagers would plunder the broken ships; they were called Wreckers. This story is about 14-year old John Spencer, who is sailing from London on his father's merchant ship. When the ship, Isle of Skye, is wrecked, he escapes drowning and murder and finds himself on a dangerous adventure to save his father, who has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. The first in the series.
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman Brian Jacques
YA Jacques
Ben stows away on the Flying Dutchman, hoping for a better life on the sea. But this ship is doomed-the captain is crazed and curses God during a horrible storm. An avenging angel condemns the Flying Dutchman to be a ghost ship, forever roaming the seas with its ghost-crew, but Ben and his dog are spared, in fact, given the gift of eternal youth. Ben and his black Lab are now charged with helping others, and this is just what they do in a English village being threatened by an industrialist bully. Fans of Redwall may enjoy this series.
Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy L.A. Meyer
YA L.A. Meyer
Mary's parents and little sister died of plague a long time ago, leaving her homeless on the dirty streets of London. She gets along by sticking with a small gang of other orphaned kids, and they steal and beg their way through life. When the leader of the gang is killed, Mary takes his clothes, calls herself Jacky, and signs up as a ship's boy on the Dolphin, a Navy frigate. Along with learning her new, hard job on the ship, Jacky must also conceal her gender. High-paced adventure and fun, the first in the popular Bloody Jack series.
Pirates! Celia Rees
YA Rees
Main character Nancy joins a pirate crew to avoid marrying an evil Brazilian, a man her father has arranged for her to marry. She also takes along Minerva, a slave who turns out to be her half-sister. Together they take the seas by storm.
Star Crossed Linda Collison
YA Collison
After her father dies, Patricia discovers she is illegitimate and has no claim on his assets. When she is kicked out of her prestigious boarding school with nowhere to go, she stows away on a ship that is heading for the Caribbean. She must endure all sorts of danger, of course, but also finds friendship and romance.
The Pirate's Son Geraldine McCaughrean
YA McCaughrean
Nathan and Maud's father hasn't been paying the fees of their boarding school. When he dies, the school kicks them out. Nathan, an avid reader and dreamer, has always been infatuated with pirates, and he finds out that schoolmate Tamo is the actual son of a pirate and a Madagascar queen. The three set sail to Madagascar, where they are all changed by the challenges and danger they encounter.
Capt. Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth J.V. Hart
YA Hart
Did you ever wonder about Captain Hook's past? This book explains it all! James (the future Hook) never knew his mother and has an estranged relationship with his rich father. While in boarding school in England, he excels at his studies and channels his anger at his classmates. Finally, he makes it to the high seas, where he boards a slave ship that reveal new horrors and family secrets.
Ghost Ship Dietlof Reiche
J Reiche
Vicki's father owns a seaside restaurant where the most popular decoration is the figurehead of an old ship. Vicki herself finds the figurehead compelling and discovers a journal inside of it detailing the accounts of the cursed ship, Storm Goddess. Suddenly, strange things begin to happen, and when the Storm Goddess appears on the bay, Vicki and her friend Peter must sneak aboard and try to break the curse.
