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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-olds JB Barnes and Sidney Miller meet aboard a scientific research ship after JB is tasked to invite a renowned scientist named Sidney Miller and mistakenly invites a girl with the same name who will do anything to get out of going to summer camp.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The sun shines on the sea. Phytoplankton soak up the sun. Hungry krill feast on the plankton. Next, a shoal of fish swirl around the krill. Then along comes some squid. And on it goes, up the oceanic food chain, from squid to tuna to shark and, finally, to whale. But what is the whale hungry for? Little ones will delight in lifting the flaps to discover what's in each creature's belly-and will enjoy the unexpected twist of the largest animal feasting...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven year old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief. But she is forced out of her mourning when she's kidnapped by Merrick the Monstrous, a pirate whose list of crimes stretches longer than a ribbon eel. Her task? Use her marine know-how to retrieve his treasure, lost on the ocean floor. As Fidelia and the pirates close in on the prize, with the navy hot...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As best friends Kezumi and Kondo continue their exploration, they keep disagreeing about what their next adventure should be but finally remember what matters most--friendship.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
47) Stowaway
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
48) Ocean lullaby
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The sun is setting. The waves are gently lapping at the shore. It's time for all the ocean creatures to rest. Whales, turtles, dolphins, and more drift and doze. And as the tide pools catch the light of the moon and the stars glowing above, a mother and her baby listen to the soft sounds of the ocean lullaby"--
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A stylish picture book about an underwater quest for an elusive, bioluminescent plant perfect for young conservationists and fans of Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Fox loves nature, and enjoys discovering strange and fascinating plants. He especially loves the seaside, and often walks the salty coastal trails with his cousin Wolf. One day, Seagull tells the two about an especially interesting underwater plant called the constellation...
Author
Series
Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The first book of "a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend ... Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands,...
52) Keeper
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.
Author
Series
Bitty Bot volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Bitty Bot is initially unhappy while on vacation at the beach with his family until he makes two new friends and they build a submarine, setting off for adventure under the ocean.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"La venganza de una mujer enfrentada al Olonés, el pirata más sanguinario del Caribe. En el año del Señor de 1667, un galeón inglés parte del puerto de Maracaibo y surca las aguas del mar Caribe en dirección a la isla de La Tortuga. Va tras los pasos del Olonés, un sanguinario bucanero francés. Al mando de la nave se encuentra un personaje a quien nadie conoce, de quien nadie ha oído hablar, pero que está decidido a llegar a su destino...
57) Stormstruck!
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Believing his parents are going to euthanize Pogo, a beloved golden Labrador that had belonged to his deceased brother, twelve-year-old Sam sets sail with the dog and gets caught in a terrible storm along with Magnus, a hermit, and his pet tern, Fuego, whom they meet on an island.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"A picture book that can be read front-to-back or back-to-front. Start from one end and journey from outer space down to the sea; start from the other end and journey from deep in the sea out to a distant planet"--Provided by publisher.
59) My ocean is blue
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A girl with a disability explores every facet of the ocean during a day at the beach. A girl spends an entire day exploring the seaside with her mom. A keen observer, she sees the ocean as both "big" and "small" and both "sparkly" and "dull. It's also "dotted and spiraled and wavy and straight." Her ocean is full of sounds -- it "splashes and crashes" and "laughs and hums." But, at times, it's silent. She is inspired to examine and celebrate every...
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