pirates

Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.

Provides an account of modern-day pirates, looks at where they operate and the damage they cause, discusses the challenges of bringing pirates to justice, and examines efforts around the world to put an end to the crime of piracy.

Traces the careers of notorious pirates in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.

Bailey school kids stumble across a map in the sailor's cabin. Could this map lead to a real life buried treasure?.

Pete and his friends plan to find the treasure of Snake Island before the grown-ups, but first they have to get past the snake that is guarding it.

The five Bas-Thornton children, accompanied by their Creole friends, the Fernandez children, are put on a ship to England after a hurricane levels their home in Jamaica, but they are captured by pirates off the coast of Cuba and adapt very swiftly to the pirating life, proving more brutal than their captors.

An account of the life and adventures of respectable New York merchant who became a famous pirate and the search for his legendary buried treasure.

Pictures and text describe what pirates were really like, especially the pirates of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.