caribbean region

After two out-of-season hurricanes nearly destroy her island home, Corinne discovers that the god Huracan is angry and she, aided by friends and enemies alike, races to calm him.

Quebrado has been a slave on captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village.

Describes what happened when a slave ship that was captured by pirates in 1717, packed with plunder, was sunk by a brutal storm, and the expedition to locate the wreck and what was uncovered.

"When Abigail Adams decides there's more to life than doing chores in the White House, she joins a crew of Caribbean pirates!"--Provided by publisher.

Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.

Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man. Presented in Spanish.

Elizabeth, Will, and Captain Barbossa rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from the land of the dead and set out to call together the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe in order to stand against Beckett, Jones, Norrington, the Flying Dutchman, and the entire East India Trading Company.

Introduces students to the many ways the Creole people have adapted to the climate of the island of Guadeloupe, describing the food they eat, the clothes they wear, their daily lives, and other related topics.