pirates

Fourteen-year-old Daniel's life is turned upside down when his father's merchant ship is plundered by pirates in 1696 and Daniel is forced to stay aboard the pirate ship as a hostage.

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.

A dying captain's final wish before he dies is to find the legendary Devil's Eye and appoints sixteen-year-old Olivia Soldana to lead his fearless crew.

The pirates travel to the end of the world in search of the notorious Captain Jack Sparrow, whom they hope will save them from Lord Beckett, who, along with the East India Trading Company, is trying to take control of the seas.

Discusses Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, and other pirates and privateers, both men and women, who have roamed the sea since 1500.

When sixteen-year-old Terry Talley stows away on a yacht, she doesn't expect to encounter another runaway and end up shipwrecked on a tiny island with a bunch of oddball pirates who are looking for some buried treasure.

Examines the popular image of pirates in modern times, to discover where the image came from, and compares it with the real world of pirates, who were more often murderers and thieves than romantic heros.

Profiles the lives and exploits of some of the most notorious pirates who terrorized the high seas during the nineteenth century, including Captain Kidd.

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 and great danger.

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