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Author
Series
Maritime cooperation in East Asia volume Volume 12
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Do fish wear pajamas? What's the sound of an iceberg melting? How many sheep did it take to launch a Viking longship? Which is faster: a tsunami or a bullet train? Find the answers to these and many more questions in a book that explores the history, science, environment and art of our planet's seas and oceans. Richly illustrated and perfect for broadening children's knowledge of an essential subject, away from the classroom."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"For thousands of years, sailors have watched the ocean from the decks of their ships. And many returned from their voyages with tales of mermaids! This accessible text brings together myths from cultures all over the world and highlights the interesting stories of P. T. Barnum's Feejee Mermaid of the 1800s as well as the original "Little Mermaid" fairytale. Readers will explore possible scientific explanations for the many sightings and consider...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Ella is on holiday on a LUXURY cruise ship. It's going to be AMAZING- swimming pools, shopping mall, ice-skating ... and NO school for a week! Best of all, Zoe is coming too! But when a friendship catastrophe strikes, Ella's perfect holiday looks doomed! Can she find a new CRUISE BFF? Or will this voyage be FUN OVERBOARD?
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Meg: A group of scientists exploring the Marianas Trench encounter the largest marine predator that has ever existed - the Megalodon.
Meg 2: A research team encounters multiple threats while exploring the depths of the ocean, including a malevolent mining operation.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
Author
Series
Daring dukes volume 4
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Lady Lisbeth Medford, Countess of Waterstone and famed international spy, is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. On a covert mission, she's determined to infiltrate a notorious smuggling ring in the West Indies as a ship's captain...only her identity has been compromised. Leaving her pursuers in ashes, she boards her vessel to flee, but the men on her heels will stop at nothing until she's paid the piper. The trouble to her front, however,...
Author
Publisher
Wayward Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A powerful testament to the magnitude of human courage and resilience, The King of the Coral Sea is a gripping narrative adventure that artfully recounts Michael Fomenko's legendary voyage - paddling a dugout canoe over one thousand nautical kilometres from Cairns Australia to Dutch New Guinea. Faced with gruelling physical effort, saltwater crocodiles lurking beneath the waves, and the ever-present danger of storms and jagged coral reefs, Michael...
12) The message
Author
Series
Animorphs volume 4
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"We can't tell you who we are. It's too risky, and everyone is in danger. Yeah. Even you. It begins with the dreams. Cassie has been having strange nightmares of a voice calling to her from deep beneath the ocean. They're unsettling, but it isn't until Cassie discovers Tobias has been having the exact same dreams--of a voice pleading for help--that she decides it's time to start listening. When pieces of debris wash up on shore, marked with alien...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young readers rediscover the story of the largest and most luxurious ship ever built, The Titanic. Featuring historical imagery, first-hand accounts, and lively text"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration continues to grip our attention. As a result, for more than a millennium the Vikings have traveled far and wide, not least across the turbulent seas of our minds and imaginations. The geographical reach of the Norse was extraordinary. For centuries medieval sagas, first recorded in Iceland, claimed that Vikings reached North America...
15) Arctic void
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When almost everyone vanishes from a tourist ship in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore, the men deteriorate in body and mind until a dark truth emerges that compels them to ally or perish.
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Aged just seven, Suzanne Heywood set sail with her parents and brother on a three-year voyage around the world. What followed turned instead into a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with little formal schooling. No one else knew where they were most of the time and no state showed any interest in what was happening to the children. Suzanne fought her parents, longing to return to England and to education and...
17) Illumioceans
Author
Series
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The ocean is a big, mysterious place. With the magic three-colour lens included in Illuminoceans, shed some light on the darkest depths of our watery world, and encounter the creatures, seascapes and surprising underwater features of all of Earths oceans. From the mighty Pacific to the polar seas, Illuminoceans takes readers on a journey of discovery through the most mysterious environments known to science. Meet majestic mammals like blue whales,...
18) Leviathan
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An underwater mining expedition is attacked by the mutant result of a failed genetic experiment.
19) Titanic
Author
Series
Publisher
DK/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Tate family is crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the doomed Titanic. Will they survive?" -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Caliber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping true-life thriller about the first US submarine to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier-and the sub's tragic twist of fate"--
In 1939 off the New England coast, the submarine USS Squalus accidentally sinks to the bottom of the sea during a training exercise, killing half her crew. Coming to the rescue is the USS Sculpin, in many ways the Squalus's twin. As their oxygen supply dwindles, the remaining crew aboard the Squalus are saved in a...