Michele, Michael, Jo Dee, and Brian set off on an adventure in North Carolina's pirate haunt port town of Bath, where they try to recover a special prop and save an outdoor drama while learning about the Golden Age of piracy.
Explains what pirates are, introduces some of history's best known pirates, discusses what life was like aboard a pirate ship, and looks at pirate weapons, attacks, treasure, kingdoms, and punishments.
When pirates, attracted by the smell of home-cooked noodle pudding, abduct Grandma and her parrot, clever Melissa comes up with a plot to set Grandma free.
When the U.S. secretary of state's plane crashes en route to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA hires pirate Juan Cabrillo and his crew to look for her, and when the crew of the "Oregon" discovers plans that are connected to centuries-old Islamic scrolls, they are thrown into a crucial naval battle against terrorists.
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.
When twins Connor and Grace's ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate's ship, and he is determined to find her.
In the sequel to "Demons of the Ocean," Connor must learn the pirate way aboard the Diablo, or face dangerous consequences, while his twin sister Grace senses that something is very wrong on the vampirate ship she left behind.
While Connor faces trouble in the form of an obnoxious new crewmate, Grace, his twin sister, seeks out a vampirate guru who might be able to heal their dear friend Lorcan's blindness.
Discusses the multinational, multibillion dollar enterprise of high seas piracy--run by crime syndicates and warlords--examining the threat it poses to the environment, civilians, and both national and international security.
