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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
A whale researcher's unusual observation of a humpback whale with "Bite Me" scrawled on its tail starts an adventure involving an age-old conspiracy, a megalomaniac undersea ruler, and a bizarre long-distance love affair.
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Oregon has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as ship captain Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate--and as perilous--as any...
4) The sea-wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now rich, Jacky Faber has purchased the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the Atlantic, and believing she has been absolved of past sins against the Crown, she docks in London, where she is arrested and sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.
7) Mad Kestrel
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
1950-
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 7
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[1939-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Author
Series
Megalodon series volume 4
Publisher
Variance
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
David Taylor, the twenty-one-year-old son of Jonas Taylor, agrees to escort two of Angel's litter to Dubai, where a royal prince is building the largest aquarium in the world, unaware that he is being set up to lead an expedition into the dangerous Panthalassa ocean hidden beneath the Philippine Sea Plate.
11) Ship of the line
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Captain Horatio Hornblower and the undaunted crew of the Sutherland set sail to rival the exploits of Napoleon's ships.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1952-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
The second novel in the Hornblower saga finds Hornblower emerging from his apprenticeship as midshipman to assume the responsibilities that await him as a lieutenant.
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 10
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A series of episodes in the early life of Captain Hornblower.
Recounts the early years of Horatio Hornblower's captaincy, in which the young hero is stretched to the utmost by adventures at home and in the Mediterranean.
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 11
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1967-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1945- 1972]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Hornblower's new mission is a delicate one because he must maintain good diplomatic relations with Russia and Sweden at all costs and, at the same time, keep Napoleon's forces out of the Baltic.
17) Lord Hornblower
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 9
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[1946-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.
18) Beat to quarters
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1985- 1966]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua - a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS "Lydia", to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landoner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line "Natividad" or face court-martial....
20) Golden Buddha
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
Juan Cabrillo's first adventure with the Oregon - a state-of-the-art spy ship disguised as a nondescript lumber hauler - takes him and his crew into dangerous waters as they try to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese. Cabrillo's gambling chip is a golden Buddha containing records of vast oil reserves in the disputed land. But first he'll have to locate - and steal - the all-important...
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