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Author
Series
Girl from everywhere volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father's pirate ship, but when he gambles with her very existence, it all may come to an end.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Five years ago Adeluna helped the magic-rich island of Grace Loray overthrow its oppressor, Agrid, a country ruled by religion. When an Argridian delegate vanishes during peace talks with Grace Loray's new Council, Argrid demands brutal justice-- and Lu suspects something dangerous is at work. Devereux is a pirate, scavenging the island's magic plants and selling them on the black market. Accused of the diplomat's abduction, Vex becomes a target....
Author
Series
Daughter of the pirate king volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alosa is the daughter of the Siren Queen, and her mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Now Alosa and her crew are in a deadly race with Vordan, the pirate king, to find...
6) Starflight
Author
Series
Starflight volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former high school enemies Solara Brooks and Doran Spaulding must team up when they find themselves aboard a renegade spaceship.
Author
Series
Daughter of the pirate king volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When her father, the ruthless pirate king, discovers that a legendary treasure map can be found on an enemy ship, his daughter Alosa knows that there's only one pirate for the job herself. Leaving behind her beloved ship and crew, Alosa deliberately facilitates her own kidnapping to ensure her welcome on the ship"--
Author
Series
Girl from everywhere volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nix has spent her whole life journeying to places both real and imagined aboard her time-traveling father's ship. And now it's finally time for her to take the helm. Her future lies bright before her, until she learns that she is destined to lose the one she loves.
Author
Series
Nick McIver time adventure volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Unwilling to let the Germans occupy his islands unopposed, young Nick takes to the skies in a restored WWI fighter plane. Determined to learn to fly, he is soon photographing German patrol boats by day and flying by night.
11) Crossbones
Author
Series
Kingdom of Bones volume 1
Publisher
Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Blood Bell tolls, marking the death of the pirate king and the start of the Trials--a heart-stopping competition where the reward is the Bone Crown. Only one contender can claim the coveted island throne; each will gamble life and limb to win. Csilla Abado yearns to prove her strength to the seasoned pirates who balk at her youth and to her elder sister who has always craved Csilla's captainship. She will risk everything to become the first pirate...
Author
Series
Book of Tamarind volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maya, who has spent her life at sea with her marine biologist parents, yearns for a normal life, but when a storm washes her parents overboard, life becomes anything but normal for Maya, her younger brother and baby sister, as they land at a mysterious, uncharted island filled with danger.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Xiang and Anh--ages sixteen and seventeen--hunt the South China Sea for the lost treasure of the fabled pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao.
14) Beauty queens
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
15) Pacifica
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After surviving overcrowding, disease, and unemployment, five hundred lottery winners are promised a new start on Pacifica, but Marin Carey, corsario royalty, knows no island paradise exists.
16) Tris's book
Author
Series
Circle of magic (Tamora Pierce) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
With the defenses of Winding Circle Temple seriously weakened by an earthquake, Tris and her fellow mages-in-training try to join their different magic powers to protect the Winding Circle community from a pirate attack.
17) The witch hunter
Author
Series
Witch hunter (Virginia Boecker) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth Grey is one of the king's best witch hunters, devoted to rooting out witchcraft and doling out justice. But when she's accused of being a witch herself, Elizabeth is arrested and sentenced to burn at the stake. Salvation comes from a man she thought was her enemy. Nicholas Perevil, the most powerful and dangerous wizard in the kingdom, offers her a deal: he will save her from execution if she can break the deadly curse that's been laid upon...
18) Railsea
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one's death & the other's glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life than traveling the endless rails of the railsea--even if his captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-colored...
Author
Series
All the stars and teeth volume 1
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"As princess of the island kingdom Visidia, Amora Montara has spent her entire life training to be High Animancer--the master of souls. The rest of the realm can choose their magic, but for Amora, it's never been a choice. To secure her place as heir to the throne, she must prove her mastery of the monarchy's dangerous soul magic. When her demonstration goes awry, Amora is forced to flee. She strikes a deal with Bastian, a mysterious pirate: he'll...
Author
Series
Ascendance novels volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ascendant King Jaron believes that his kingdom, Carthya, is at peace, so he and his bethrothed, Imogen, are sailing home from a trade mission when their ship is attacked by Prozarians, and Jaron and several of his friends are taken prisoner; the Prozarian captain seems to believe he had something to do with his parents' deaths and they also know a great deal about Jaron's long-missing older brother, Darius, the rightful heir to Carthya--who may be...
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