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Gold rush girl

"Victoria Blaisdell longs for independence and adventure, and she yearns to accompany her father as he sails west in search of real gold! But it is 1848, and Tory isn't even allowed to go to school, much less travel all the way from Rhode Island to California. Determined to take control of her own destiny, Tory stows away on the ship. Though San Francisco is frenzied and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory finds freedom and friendship there. Until one day, when Father is in the gold fields, her younger brother, Jacob, is kidnapped. And so Tory is spurred on a treacherous search for him in Rotten Row, a part of San Francisco Bay crowded with hundreds of abandoned ships"--OCLC.

The stowaway

Hubie, a young mouse crossing the ocean on a large cruise ship with his parents, helps a stowaway elude the authorities.
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Shackleton's stowaway

A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of his toes to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.
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The bravest man in the world

2019
"In 1912, orphaned Irish street musician Jonathan Harker accidentally stows away on the Titanic, where he is befriended by Wallace Hartley, called 'the bravest man in the world' for playing violin with the band as the Titanic sank. Includes historical note"--Provided by publisher.
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Lintang and the pirate queen

2019
Lintang's dream of adventure on the high seas comes true when Captain Shafira invites her to join her pirate crew, but Lintang's best friend, Bayani, has stowed away and is keeping secrets.
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Freya & Zoose

2019
"Freya, a penguin, and Zoose, a mouse, become friends while stowaways on Salomon August Andr?e's 1897 hot air balloon expedition to the North Pole"--Provided by publisher.
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Voyage to the metal moon

After stowing away on a spacecraft, Zak and his alien friend, Erro, did not expect to end up on the prison planet called Alcatraz, but here they are; their latest plan to escape involves stowing away on another spacecraft--unfortunately this one is only going to Alcatraz's nearby metallic moon, a prison just as deadly as Alcatraz itself.
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Passage to fortune

searching for Saguenay
In 1535, thirteen-year-old Samuel de la Loire, who comes from a wealthy and aristocratic family in St. Malo, France, yearns for adventure, so he stows away aboard one of Jacques Cartier's ships, which are returning to the New World in search of gold, and the mythical Kingdom of Saguenay--what he finds is a struggle for survival, especially after he is left behind when the ships sail back to France.
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No safe place

Fifteen-year-old Abdul, having lost everyone he loves, journeys from Baghdad to a migrant community in Calais where he sneaks aboard a boat bound for England, not knowing it carries a cargo of heroin, and when the vessel is involved in a skirmish and the pilot killed, it is up to Abdul and three other young stowaways to complete the journey.

The Titanic

"A stowaway dog and the captain's cat forge an unlikely friendship as they race to protect three kittens, help their humans, and survive the sinking of the Titanic"--From publisher.
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