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The Wanderer

author: Creech, Sharon
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.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 155
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830

Dreaming Of America

author: Bunting, Eve
Annie Moore cares for her two younger brothers on board the ship sailing from Ireland to America where she becomes the first immigrant processed through Ellis Island, January 1, 1892, her fifteenth birthday.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 54
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 320

Pippi In The South Seas

author: Lindgren, Astrid
The adventures of the strongest girl in the world, who takes her two friends with her when she travels from Sweden to visit her father, king of an island in the South Seas.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850

The Stolen Sapphire

author: Buckey, Sarah Masters
On an ocean liner headed to Europe in 1906, Samantha and Nellie set out to find an archaeologist's legendary sapphire that has gone missing, investigating every first-class passenger.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800

Secrets At Sea

author: Peck, Richard
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 46
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600

The Sinking Of The Titanic, 1912

author: Tarshis, Lauren
Ten-year-old George Calder's life changes forever as he, his little sister, Phoebe, and their Aunt Daisy set out across the ocean on the "Titanic" in 1912.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 272
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590

The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle

author: Avi
When 13 year-old Charlotte Doyle boarded the Seahawk in June of 1832, she never dreamed that the crew would mutiny and that her life would be in danger.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 188
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

The Secret Journey

author: Kehret, Peg
In 1834 when a storm at sea destroys the slave ship on which she is a stowaway, twelve-year-old Emma musters all her resourcefulness to survive in the African jungle.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770

Titanic

author: Adams, Simon, Claybourne, Anna & Daynes, Katie, Sloan, Frank, Fullman, Joe, Will And Ma Osborne, Young, Filson, Bonsall, Thomas E, Dubowski, Mark
A non-fiction companion to 'Tonight on the Titanic'.It's a new kind of adventure for Jack and Annie! Join them as they research the Titanic and find out the facts behind the fiction!Explores the history of the steamship Titanic, from Thomas Andrew's plans for 'the safest ship on the ocean' to the lingering questions concerning its disastrous maiden voyage in 1912.
910
year: 8272
copies: 128
call number/section: 910
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Skipping Christmas

author: Grisham, John
Luther and Nora Krank decide to opt out of Christmas, choosing instead to set sail on a Caribbean cruise on December 25, but they learn there are consequences to pay for trying to ignore the holiday frenzy.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

Caught By The Sea

author: Paulsen, Gary
Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet and other adventure novels, tells about his lifelong love of sailing, boats he has owned, and the storms, sharks, and peaceful lagoons he has experienced on his voyages.
920
year: 2003
copies: 39
call number/section: 920
lexile: 1210

The Journal Of Brian Doyle

author: Murphy, Jim
A fictional diary in which young Brian Doyle records how he ran away from his home in San Francisco in 1784, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970
subjects: whaling, ocean travel [X], survival, diaries, historical fiction

Life Of Pi

author: Martel, Yann
Sixteen-year-old Pi, having spent an idyllic childhood in India as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family to start anew in Canada, but his life takes an unexpected turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena for company.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 193
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830

True Sea Stories

author: Brook, Henry
Ten true stories of maritime adventure, disaster, and recovery.
910.4
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: 910.4
lexile: 1070

Pippi Goes On Board

author: Lindgren, Astrid, Lindgren
Pippi sets out with her friends Tommy and Annika to save her seafaring father, who has been kidnapped by pirates.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870

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