PIRATES!

Ship of Fire                      Y CADNUM

by Michael Cadnum

In 1587, sailing to Spain on board Sir Francis Drake's ship "Elizabeth Bonaventure," seventeen-year-old surgeon's apprentice Thomas Spyre finds that, with the sudden death of his master, he must take over as ship's surgeon and prove his skill not only as a doctor but also as a fighter when he is enlisted by Drake to face battle.

Quest                               Y DUBLE

by Kathleen Benner Duble

Relates events of explorer Henry Hudson's final voyage in 1602 from four points of view, those of his seventeen-year-old son aboard ship, a younger son left in London, a             crewmember, and a young English woman  acting as a spy in Holland in hopes of restoring honor to her family's name.

The Treasure of Savage Island    Y HART

by Lenore Hart

After Rafe, a runaway slave, stows away on a ship that wrecks off an island near the Eastern Shore, he is helped by thirteen-year-old Molly, and the two of them share an adventure           involving pirates, spies, and a lost treasure.

The Dust of 100 Dogs            Y KING

by A.S. King

Cursed to live the lives of 100 dogs, a seventeenth-century pirate finally returns to life as a human being and has only one thing on her mind--to recover the treasure she had buried in Jamaica three hundred years before.

Dead Reckoning: A Pirate      Y LAWLOR

Voyage with Captain Drake         

by Laurie Lawlor

Emmet, a fifteen-year-old orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails from   England in 1577 as a servant aboard the Golden Hind--the ship of his cousin, the          explorer and pirate Francis Drake--on its three-year circumnavigation of the world.

The Wreckers                 Y LAWRENCE

by Iain Lawrence

Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his  father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.

The Smugglers                 Y LARENCE

by Iain Lawrence

In eighteenth-century England, after his father buys a schooner called the Dragon, sixteen-year-old John sets out to sail it from Kent to London and becomes involved in a dangerous smuggling scheme. (sequel to The Wreckers)

The Buccaneers               Y LAWRENCE

by Iain Lawrence

In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed. (sequel to The Smugglers)

Piratica Series                 Y LEE

by Tanith Lee

Book 1: Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a  Singular Girl's Adventure upon the High Seas

A bump on the head restores Art's memories of her mother and the exciting life they led, so

the sixteen-year-old leaves Angels Academy for Young Maidens, seeks out the pirates who were her family before her mother's death, and leads them back to adventure on the high seas

Book 2: Piratica II : return to Parrot Island : being the return of a most intrepid heroine to sea and secrets

Finding married life ashore too tame for her wild spirit, pirate queen Artemesia Blastside, at the behest of the English government, uses her talents against the French and soon learns the high price of freedom.

Book 3: Piratica III: The family Sea: Being the gallant tale of a fearless heroine and a Fatal Secret

In her third adventure Art Blastside regroups her ragtag crew and sails once again across the oceans, through wild weather, bizarre places and riotous sea battles, to return to the Treasured Isle and learn the secret of why she is unable to love her 18-month-old child.

The Pirate’s Son            Y McCAUGHREAN

by Gerladine McCaughrean

Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.

Bloody Jack Series                   Y MEYER

by L.A. Meyer

Book 1: Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky"         Faber, Ship's Boy.  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.

Book 2:  Curse of the blue tattoo: being an account of the misadventures of Jacky Faber, midshipman and fine lady

In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds       herself attending school in Boston, where,        instead of learning to be a lady, she battles her snobbish classmates, roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.

Book 3: Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical                      Adventures of Jacky Faber

In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea where she gains control of a British warship and eventually becomes a privateer.

book 4: In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber

Jacky Faber and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston are kidnapped while on a school outing and        transported in the hold of a slave ship bound for the slave markets of North Africa.

Book 5: Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and the Lily of the West

In 1806, the exploits of Jacky Faber continue as she heads west to avoid capture by the        British and discovers adventure aboard a keelboat on the mighty Mississippi River.

Book6: My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War

While trying to run a respectable shipping business in 1806, teenaged Jacky Faber finds herself in France, spying for the British Crown in order to save her friends.

Book7: Rapture of the deep : Being an        Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy

In 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet          another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.

Pirates!                AUDIO CD Y REES

The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, Female Pirates            

by Celia Rees

In 1722, after arriving in Jamaica, where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

Vampirates Series       Y SOMPER

by Justin Somper

book 1: Demons of the Ocean

When twins Connor and Grace's ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by

pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate's ship, and he is determined to find her.

Book 2: Tide of Terror

Connor Tempest may only be fourteen, but he's taken to the life of a pirate like a duck to water. But his loyalties are divided between his shipmates and his sister. Grace Tempest isn't  finding the pirate life so appealing. She cannot shake the feeling that all is not well on the vampirate ship she left behind. Dare she try to return to it? Sidorio may have been expelled from the vampirate ship but his dark deeds are just beginning.

Book 3: Blood Captain

While Connor faces trouble in the form of an obnoxious new crewmate, Grace, his twin sister, seeks out a vampirate guru who might be able to heal their dear friend Lorcan's blindness.

Book 4: Black Hearts

When a high-profile pirate is slain, the Pirate Federation takes decisive action and begins training up a ship of dedicated vampire hunters led by Captain Cheng Li and pirate prodigy Connor Tempest. Meanwhile, Connor's twin sister Grace enjoys a bittersweet reunion with their mother and learns some important and shocking news that will leave the twins facing a very uncertain future.

Terry and the Pirates            Y THOMPSON

by Julian F. Thompson

When sixteen-year-old Terry Talley stows away on a yacht, she doesn't expect to encounter another runaway and end up shipwrecked on a tiny island with a bunch of oddball pirates who are looking for some buried treasure.

Red Sea                             Y TULLSON

by Diane Tullson

When fourteen-year-old Libby, her Mom, and her new step-dad Duncan set out on a year-long sailing adventure, Libby believes missing her friends and being forced to spend time with her mom and Duncan is the worst thing that could happen to her, until their sailboat is attacked by violent modern-day pirates.