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The Ghostfaces

John Flanagan · 399 pages

When the Brotherband crew are caught in a massive storm at sea, they’re blown far off course – so far that they wash up on the shores of a land to the west that Hal can’t recognize from any of his maps. Eerily the locals are nowhere in sight, yet the Herons have a creeping feeling they are being watched. Suddenly the silence is broken when a massive, marauding bear appears, advancing on two ch

PiratesOcean and ShipsAdventureMiddle Grade
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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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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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Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson · 278 pages

KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound

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Drowned Wednesday

Garth Nix · 389 pages

This is Book Three in Garth Nix's blockbuster fantasy-adventure series, The Keys to the Kingdom, following the best-selling Mister Monday and Grim Tuesday.Arthur Penhaligon has a broken leg and a bad attack of asthma, but there's no time for recovery. Drowned Wednesday has sent a ship to pluck him from the safety of his bed, miles from any ocean, and sail him back to the House.From hospital room t

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Isle of Fire

Wayne Thomas Batson

With eighteen-year-old Anne Ross at this side, Cat takes over as captain of the monks' fleet to find the legendary villain known as the Merchant, but they, the pirate hunters, monks, and Commodore Blake, have been betrayed by King George and a once-trusted advisor.

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The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

Akira Himekawa · 187 pages

After Tetra is captured aboard the Ghost Ship, Link races to save her but quickly discovers he must embark on a new quest to collect the Sand of Hours to fill the Phantom Hourglass and break the curse that has been placed on the Temple of the Ocean King before Tetra can be freed.

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Hunt for Jade Dragon

Richard Paul Evans · 319 pages

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A Mutiny in Time

James Dashner · 196 pages

Time has gone wrong, and best friends Dak Smyth and Sera Froste, together with the young Hystorian Riq, must use the infinity ring to travel back to one of the Great Breaks--a mutiny on the Santa María--to correct history and defeat the SQ.

Ocean and ShipsMiddle GradeAdventureFast-Paced
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The Arctic Incident

Eoin Colfer · 304 pages

Auf geheimen Wegen gelangt Meisterverbrecher Artemis Fowl in das eisige Murmansk, wo er seinen Vater vermutet, der sich in der Gewalt einer skrupellosen Erpresserbande befinden soll. Doch Artemis hat ungewöhnliche Verbündete auf seiner Seite und natürlich auch schon einen Plan im Kopf. Einen gefährlichen Plan.

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Those in Peril

Wilbur Smith · 385 pages

An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release.

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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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White Cargo

Stuart Woods · 352 pages

A man is left for dead when Columbian pirates raid his yacht and murder his wife and daughter. But soon after, he receives a phone call which reveals that his daughter is still alive.

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Peter and the Starcatchers

Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson · 451 pages

Le jeune Peter et quatre de ses amis quittent la maison de redressement pour embarquer de force sur le Never Land. A bord, Molly montre à Peter une malle remplie de poussière d'étoiles qui permet de voler. Ils unissent leurs forces pour la protéger du pirate Black Stache. Premier épisode d'une série sur la rencontre de Peter et Stache, les futurs Peter Pan et capitaine Crochet.

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The Coming Storm

Rob Kidd · 134 pages

Adventure-seeking teenager Jack Sparrow has assembled a motley crew and their goal is to locate and procure the legendary Sword of Cortes.

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Torn

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 352 pages

Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine’s knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy’s life. Author’s notes includes facts about Henry Hudson’s explorations.

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One Piece, Volume 11: The Meanest Man in the East

Eiichiro Oda · 188 pages

With the fate of Coco Village and maybe even the rest of East Blue hanging in the balance, Luffy bounces back from his near-drowning at the hands of "Sawtooth" Arlong with a few tricks up his sleeve.

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Dreadnought

Mark Walden · 304 pages

"One of their own has gone rogue and is threatening global armageddon, with himself at the head of a sinister new world order. Meanwhile, Otto, Wing and other students from H.I.V.E. are en route to a training excersise in the Artic known as the ninety-three-percenter, owing to the proportion of students who make it back alive. But before they arrive, events take over, and Otto, Wing and his most t

Kidnapping PlotAdventureScience FictionMiddle Grade
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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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The Legend of Luke

Brian Jacques · 374 pages

In this twelfth book in the Redwall epic, we go back in time to the days before Redwall, revealing the legend of the first of the magnificent Redwall warriors--Luke, father of Martin. It is that legend Martin hopes to discover when he embarks on a perilous journey to the northland shore, where his father abandoned him as a child. There, within the carcass of a great ship he uncovers what he's been

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Airborn

Kenneth Oppel · 448 pages

Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. . . .Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on

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Cinnamon and Gunpowder

Eli Brown · 336 pages

In 1819, kidnapped chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals at the behest of his kidnapper, pirate queen Mad Hannah Mabbot, while she pushes her exhausted crew to track down a deadly privateer.

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A Gathering of Shadows

V.E. Schwab · 512 pages

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Larklight

Philip Reeve · 399 pages

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