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1) The Wanderer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
Series
Flat Stanley volume 6
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After Stanley Lambchop goes flat once again, he uses his flatness to help win a sailboat race and to rescue a classmate from a collapsed building.
3) Windcatcher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for something.
4) Sail
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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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
Flat Stanley volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After Stanley Lambchop goes flat once again, he uses his flatness to help win a sailboat race and to rescue a classmate from a collapsed building.
6) Adrift
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
"Matt and Mike are best friends, just two working-class guys trying to earn some money in Montauk for the summer. When they meet Driana, JoJo, and Stef, three friends who live a much different life of privilege, Matt and Mike find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard a small boat that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel...
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Sailing Alone Around the World, by Joshua Slocum, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"The Herons are home in Skandia, but the usually peaceful country is in danger. The Temujai--ruthless warriors from the Eastern Steppes--have never given up on their ambition to claim Skandia for their own...and now they're on the move. Hal and his crew will have to brave the treacherous icy river and rapids to stop them, no matter the cost"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
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From producer Jerry Bruckheimer (PEARL HARBOR) comes PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, the thrilling high-seas adventure with a mysterious twist. The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's (Academy Award(R) Nominee Johnny Depp) idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the governor's beautiful...
11) Amos & Boris
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Befriended by a whale as he is drowning in the ocean, a mouse gets a chance to reciprocate years later in an equally unlikely situation.
Pub. Date
2003
Description
The fate of an empire rests on the shoulders of one man. After a sneak attack by a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his vessel, Cpt. "Lucky" Jack Aubrey is torn between duty and friendship as he embarks on a thrilling high-stakes chase across two oceans to capture or destroy the emeny at any cost.
13) Dove
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A solo voyage, around the world by Robin Lee Graham in his 24ft sloop, was just the beginning of many adventures for him.
Adolescence.
Juvenile literature.
14) Ocean meets sky
Author
Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's stories"--
15) Sailing Elysium
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Description
Exploring cultures and traditions of the Pacific and Oceania nations, from Panama to Palau, Tonga to Thailand, and beyond.
16) We, the drowned
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"We the Drowned carsten JensenIn 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return - and those who do will never be the same. Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who promptly escapes again into the anonymity of the high seas. As soon as he is old enough, his son Albert sets off in search of his missing father on a voyage that will take him to the furthest reaches...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Cold Oceans is the thrilling story of Jon Turk's expeditions to some of the most inhospitable regions on earth. Even after being shipwrecked off Cape Horn, stopped by ice in the Northwest Passage, and beaten back by Arctic blizzards, Turk has continued to follow an irresistible urge to explore.
Guided by his restless spirit and fueled by tales of Elizabethan explorers, Turk first heads off alone to kayak around Cape Horn. But while he is paddling...
18) Bunny overboard
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Bunny goes sailing on the sea, and the reader is invited to follow instructions to blow wind into his sails, rock the boat, and guess what Bunny will see next as he explores undersea life.
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In 1862, Mercy escapes a bleak future in London and joins a bride ship. Wealthy and titled, Joseph becomes the ship's surgeon to avoid the pain of losing his family. He has no intention of settling down, but when Mercy becomes his assistant, they must fight against a forbidden love.