boats and boating

"What does it take to make a boat float? Gather some supplies and try it out for yourself! Discover tips and ideas on how to build the best boat around!"--Provided by publisher.

Taking the ferry is an interesting--and fun--way to travel. This mode of nautical public transportation has its own unique features, procedures, and vocabulary. Young readers will learn all about taking the ferry with this book's simple, easy-to-digest text.

Eleven-year-old Skeet Waters flees to his boat to escape his parents' troubles and discovers a manatee that had been shot in the head.

Presents various kinds of boats which come and go in a busy harbor.

While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet spends most of Spring Break in his skiff on a Florida river, where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer.

Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.

Struggling to find a direction for his life after his legal guardian dies, his basketball dreams end, and his girlfriend goes off to college, high school graduate Jackson O'Connell takes a job working in a boatyard and learns how to sail.

Jasper Raisintoast, friend of Tweedy-Jones, zooms into trouble and adventure in his superfast, shiny speedboat.

When Big Bear outgrows his old boat, he gives it to Little Bear and builds himself a new one, just like it except bigger, until his friends start making suggestions that result in something very different.

"A German submarine has torpedoed the steamship 'Maiden.' The damaged ship is an iron island in the sea. The Oliver family is called on to repair the vessel. Samuel sneaks off to prove to his father that he can safely explore the ship. When the Germans come back to sink the ship they capture Samuel's father and Uncle. Can Samuel thwart the Germans and rescue his family?"--Provided by publisher.