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Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed...
Author
Series
I survived volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.
3) Life of Pi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched...
4) The plover
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A compelling, marvelous novel by the acclaimed author of Mink River Declan O Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that's so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude. Instead, he finds a crew, each in search of something themselves, and what at first seems a lonely sea voyage becomes a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned"--
Author
Language
English
Description
When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and set out on an adventure. She's also quick to bond with their passengers, college best friends Brittany and Amma. The two women say they want to travel off...
6) Passenger
Author
Series
Passenger volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Two worlds collide in this sweeping, romantic novel about a love that crosses centuries by bestselling author of the Darkest Minds series, Alexandra Bracken"--
9) Wayfarer
Author
Series
Passenger volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Etta finds herself stranded--cut off from Nick and her natural time--and must make her way back to him before the timeline as they know it is destroyed.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Lucy and Edmond, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the magic land of Narnia, where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
13) Secrets at sea
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Secret projects volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 590L
Language
English
Description
Moo the cow has big dreams of seeing the world beyond her own farm and so heads towards the bay where she boards a ship for the high seas, yet while on her exciting journey, Moo crosses paths with Captain Red Angus and thinks that she may have stumbled upon a pirate ship.
17) The sea fairies
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trot and her uncle, Cap'n Bill, encounter unusual experiences with mermaids, sea-serpents, and other strange creatures while journeying in the depths of the sea.
20) Seabird
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
An ivory gull carved by Ezra Brown in 1832 brings luck to four generations of his family as they travel on the seas and in the air.
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