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School Ship Tobermory volume 2
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Ben and Fee MacTavish and their schoolmates on board the School Ship Tobermory are headed thousands of miles from their base in Mull to a small island in the Caribbean. They will learn extraordinary details about Captain Macbeth's past and come face to face with modern-day pirates. The students and crew aboard the Tobermory will have to band together and use their wits to escape harm and overcome the evil pirates.
106) The vanishing island
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Chronicles of the Black Tulip volume 1
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"A young boy named Bren sets out on the high seas with a mysterious admiral to search for a legendary map that leads to an object of unspeakable power"--
107) Trim saves the day
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Trim looks for a way to help his crewmates without much success, but when he discovers a big problem on the ship, it is all hands on deck.
108) My Clementine
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"A longtime captain of a refrigerated cargo ship named Clementine narrates the many adventures of the ship, from its building in the 1930s through the next five decades of travel"--
111) Lord Jim: a tale
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The story of a young, idealistic Englishman--'as unflinching as a hero in a book'--who's disgraced by an act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from 'an Eastern port' with a party of Muslim pilgrims.
115) The quayside cat
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Jim, the quayside cat, having heard many tales of life at sea from Old Tregarn, persuades the former ship's cat to join him on a voyage of his own.
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Cecil and Anton are brothers, but they're as different as port and starboard. Cecil thirsts for seafaring adventure as he roams the docks of his harborside home, taking day trips on fishing boats. Anton prefers listening to the sailors' shanties at the town saloon. But one day when Anton goes to port, he's taken to be a ratter on a ship bound for the high seas. Cecil boards another ship in hopes of finding Anton, but what begins as a rescue mission...
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When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island in 1883, the evil Captain Flint was already dead and Long John Silver had already lost his leg. Drake imagines the lead-up to that classic pirate tale, offering a witty and exciting explanation of how Silver became a pirate, lost his leg and gained a parrot; how Flint conspired to bury his pirate loot and murder everyone within pistol shot; and how Flint and Silver became friends, then bitter enemies....
120) The dark canoe
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Sixteen-year-old Nathan sails from nineteenth-century Nantucket to a remote California bay with his two older brothers and finds himself in mysterious circumstances involving the death of one brother and the strange obsession of the other.