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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye—the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.
In 1820,...
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.
In 1820,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a Swiss minister, his wife, and four sons struggle to survive until they can be rescued.
Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a Swiss minister, his wife, and four sons struggle to survive until they can be rescued
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire"--
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower...
10) Shipwrecks
Author
Publisher
Dingles & Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Some shipwrecks are caused by storms, some by bombs, some by ships crashing into each other. This work will help the reader find out about some famous shipwrecks.
11) From below
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English
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"The SS Arcadia vanished during a routine voyage. A strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, but no trace of the ship, or of its crew, could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more than three hundred miles from its intended course. A small team are granted permission to dive to it. Their purpose is straightforward: explore the wreck, film everything, and, if possible, uncover how and why the supposedly unsinkable...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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On April 10, 1912, fourteen-year-old Christopher Watkins boards the Titanic with his family. While sailing across the Atlantic, the giant ship strikes an iceberg and begins to sink! Christopher must quickly find a way to save his family.
14) The redemption
Author
Series
Legacy of the king's pirates volume 1
Language
English
Description
Charlisse Bristol sets off on a voyage in search of a father she never knew, only to become shipwrecked on an island. She longs for a father's love to fill the emptiness in her soul from an abusive childhood, but resigns herself to a lonely death of starvation. Her salvation comes in the form of a band of pirates and their fierce, enigmatic leader, Captain Merrick.
15) Madagascar
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Description
A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves on a ship heading for Africa. When their vessel is hijacked, they become shipwrecked on the exotic island of Madagascar where they discover it really is a jungle out there!
17) Valhalla rising
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Confronting an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient, NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt treads upon territory previously known only to legend as he investigates the sinking of a luxury cruise ship, the "Emerald Dolphin". In the high-tech adventure, the past and future collide to create a whale of a tale to equal Cussler's bestselling "Atlantis Found."
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Language
English
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The Wreck of the Medusa is Jonathan Miles's spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the events that inspired Theodore Gericault's magnificent painting The Raft of the Medusa. In July of 1816, the French frigate Medusa, bound for the Senegalese port colony of Saint Louis under the command of...
19) Stranded
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Series
Stranded. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their whale-watching trip goes horribly wrong, Skylar, Gabby, and Miles find themselves on an inflatable raft in the middle of the ocean. With no food, a small amount of water, and only a small first-aid kit to help them, they must spend three treacherous days on the waves, hoping desperately for help to arrive. Sharks circle, their water supply dwindles, and Gabby begins to hallucinate. Will they survive, or are they lost at sea forever?
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