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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Lexile measure
1290L
Language
English
Description
For more than three centuries, slave ships carried millions of people from the coasts of Africa to the New World. Here, award-winning historian Rediker creates a detailed history of these vessels and the human drama acted out on their rolling decks. Rediker restores the slave ship to its rightful place alongside the plantation as a formative institution of slavery, as a place where a profound and still haunting history of race, class, and modern capitalism...
7) Liverpool
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Farrel asks the captain of the freighter he works on to go ashore once they reach the port of Ushuaia, a town in southern Argentina. He wants to return to his birthplace and see if his mother is still alive. For the past twenty years he has worked as a seaman. Having reached the cluster of houses where he grew up, Farrel discovers his mother is indeed still alive, but someone else has become part of the family....
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Editions
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
Jack Sparrow is a merchant seaman for the East India Trading Company. His ship is attacked by pirates and he is suddenly in command. He then is made commander of the ship the Wicked Wench, by Cutler Beckett who sends Jack on a voyage to an island called Zerzura to find treasure.
Author
Series
Kensington chronicles volume 1, 2
Publisher
Harvest House
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English