pirates

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Raiders' ransom

2011
In twenty-second-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, piratical raiders kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.

Peter Pan

2009
Presents a retelling of Sir James M. Barrie's classic story about three children who are spirited away to a land where children never grow up.

Pirates at sea

2001
Presents activities, based on illustrations of pirates at sea, designed to help children learn to count from zero to ten and back again.

Beauty queens

2012
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

Pirates and privateers in the New World

moments in history
2001
Describes the experiences of pirates and privateers in the New World, discussing how they helped shape the world.

Zapt!

2006
Armand is about to be inducted into the ranks of the pan-galactic order of police, where he'll have to save alien races and outwit marauding space pirates.

Dead reckoning

a pirate voyage with Captain Drake
2005
Emmet, a fifteen-year-old orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails from England in 1577 as a servant aboard the "Golden Hind"--the ship of his cousin, explorer and pirate Francis Drake--on its three-year circumnavigation of the world.

The amazing world of pirates

2003
Presents information about the lives and deeds of pirates and buccaneers, and includes sixteen step-by-step projects inspired by the pirate's life, as well as a cross-section illustration of a pirate ship.

Lost treasures of the pirates of the Caribbean

2007
Maps contain hidden clues which enable the reader to find long-missing pirate treasure.

Water rat

1998
Fourteen-year-old Matt, a crippled orphan, runs away from the cruel beatings he has endured from the owner of the tavern where he has lived since his father's death, only to come face to face with a band of pirates.

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