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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
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Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
3) Boat
Author
Series
Eyewitness books volume 36
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A look at the fascinating story of boats and ships. Stunning real-life photographs of reed and skin boats, birch-bark canoes, and hand-carved outriggers, as well as mighty steamships, modern ocean liners, and sailing dinghies offer a unique "eyewitness" view of boats and ships from around the world. See a triple-expansion steam engine, a partly built Indonesian dugout, the figurehead of a Roman galley, a Mississippi paddle steamer, a sealskin kayak,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter-in the tradition of David Grann, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Hampton Sides. In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of...
Author
Series
Brill's studies in maritime history volume Volume 2
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
17) 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.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Revealing the workings and dangers of freight shipping, the author sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore to present an eye-opening glimpse into an overlooked world filled with suspect practices, dubious operators, and pirates.
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