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Steel

Carrie Vaughn

Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure. The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, sh

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Daughter of the Pirate King

Tricia Levenseller · 336 pages

A 17-year-old pirate captain intentionally allows herself to get captured by enemy pirates in this thrilling YA adventure.

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Piratica

Tanith Lee · 288 pages

Artemesia is the daughter of a pirate queen, and she's sick of practicing deportment at the Angels Academy for Young Maidens. Escaping from the school, she hunts up her mother's crew and breezily commands them out to sea in a leaky boat. Unfortunately, Art's memories of her early life may not be accurate-her seasick crew are actors, and Art's infamous mother was the darling of the stage in a pirat

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The Reader

Traci Chee · 453 pages

"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--

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Fable

Adrienne Young · 357 pages

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Dark Water Daughter

H.M. Long · 457 pages

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Swept Away

Kamery Solomon · 448 pages

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Blood Captain

Justin Somper · 569 pages

As fans of the Vampirates series know, nothing is quite as it seems when Vampirates and pirates are involved, so twins Connor and Grace have to keep up their guards. But with every new challenge pulling them farther apart, it seems that the time has finally come for the twins to explore their separate fates. Grace, unable to forget the blindness she caused her Vampirate friend Lorcan, chooses to

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Voyager

Diana Gabaldon · 1,059 pages

From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing hi

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Princeless: Raven the Pirate Princess Book 1: Captain Raven and the All-Girl Pirate Crew

Jeremy Whitley

Fresh off her adventures in the pages of Princeless, Raven is ready to set out on her quest for revenge against her brothers. They've stolen everything that should be hers and now she's going to get it back. But first, she needs a crew. Share the laughs, action, and adventure as Raven assembles the fearless crew of awesome ladies who will help her get her revenge.

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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

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The Abyss Surrounds Us

Emily Skrutskie · 273 pages

Cassandra Leung--a seventeen-year-old trainer of Reckoners, sea beasts bred to defend ships--is kidnapped by the pirate queen Santa Elena and ordered to train a Reckoner pup to defend Santa Elena's ship.

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

Shannon Chakraborty · 307 pages

"A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised–Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." -- R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War "An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina’s adventures are the reason to read fantasy." -- Ava Reid, internationally bestselling author of Juniper & Thorn

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The House of the Four Winds

Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory · 320 pages

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Trickster's Choice

Tamora Pierce · 464 pages

Tamora Pierce brings readers another Tortall adventure! Alianne is the teenage daughter of the famed Alanna, the first lady knight in Tortall. Young Aly follows in the quieter footsteps of her father, however, delighting in the art of spying. When she is captured and sold as a slave to an exiled royal family in the faraway Copper Islands, it is this skill that makes a difference in a world filled

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The Wave Runners

Kai Meyer · 320 pages

Jolly and Munk are known as polliwiggles, or children who can walk on water. With a crew of pirates, ghosts and a dog-headed man, the polliwiggles sail across the Carribean Sea, pursued by the pirate emperor, and a mysterious deadly force known as the Maelstrom. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.

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Truthwitch

Susan Dennard · 415 pages

"On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a 'witchery,' a magical skill that sets them apart from others. In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble--as two desperate young women know all too well"--Front jacket flap.

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Wayfarer

Alexandra Bracken · 538 pages

Etta Spencer didn't know she was a traveler until the day she emerged both miles and years from her home. Now, robbed of the powerful object that was her only hope of saving her mother, Etta finds herself stranded once more, cut off from Nicholas-the eighteenth century privateer she loves-and her natural time.

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Siege and Storm

Leigh Bardugo · 416 pages

Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret.

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Nick of Time

Ted Bell · 419 pages

This fiery novel is about a boy who possesses a time machine; and with this treasure his heart is set on saving England from the grim fate of the past, and saving his kidnapped sister.

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Tress

Brandon Sanderson · 433 pages

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The Assassin and the Pirate Lord

Sarah J. Maas · 97 pages

On a remote island in a tropical sea, Celaena Sardothien, feared assassin, has come for retribution. She's been sent by the Assassin's Guild to collect on a debt they are owed by the Lord of the Pirates. But when Celaena learns that the agreed payment is not in money, but in slaves, her mission suddenly changes - and she will risk everything to right the wrong she's been sent to bring about.

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Enslaved by the Ocean

Bella Jewel · 209 pages

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Ruby Red

Kerstin Gier · 352 pages

Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth, who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon--

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