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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 42
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture. October 18th, 2001, marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of the greatest novel in American literature. The Modern Library trade paperback edition exclusively features the timeless illustrations of Rockwell Kent, an Introduction by Elizabeth Hardwick, commentary by Herman Melville and William T. Porter, contemporary reviews from John Bull and The...
2) Moby Dick
Author
Lexile measure
1230L
Language
English
Description
A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollard's career as a primate behaviorist lies in ruins. With nothing left to lose, Pollard, descendant of a Nantucket captain whose ship was sunk by a rogue whale, accepts an offer to join anti-whaling activists on a round-the-world racing yacht as the resident scientist, to sail from Argentina to the stormy Antarctic Sea. There they'll shadow, harass, and expose the Japanese fleet,...
Author
Series
Signet classic volume CT47
Language
English
Formats
Description
The epic saga of a one-legged fanatic who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him.
7) Moby Dick
Author
Publisher
Baronet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A classic of the sea, telling of the pursuit of Moby Dick, the white whale who defied capture.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Author
Series
Mermaid S.O.S volume 10
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A magical underwater adventure, with an environmentally-friendly theme, featuring six resourceful and brave young mermaids as they set out to find the stolen Snow Diamonds and return them to Princess Arctica before it's too late and Ice Kingdom is doomed.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1270L
Language
English
Description
Traces the 1897 survival tale of hundreds of sailors whose whaling ships were trapped in Arctic ice off the coast of Alaska by unexpected storms, in an account that chronicles the efforts of three rescuers dispatched by President McKinley.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
A history of African-American whalers between 1730 and 1880, describing their contributions to the whaling industry and their role in the abolitionist movement.
15) The North water
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, disgraced ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner signs up as the ship's doctor on an ill-fated Arctic whaling expedition. Soon he's confronted by a new horror, the brutish killer Henry Drax. When Sumner and his crewmates are left stranded on the merciless Arctic wasteland, he discovers just how far he's prepared to go against the savagery of nature and man.
17) Moby Dick
Author
Publisher
Sweet Cherry Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Ishmael is looking for work at sea and joins Captain Ahab and his crew aboard the magnificent ship., the Pequod. Here Ishmael hears stories of the dangerous white whale -- Moby Dick. When Ahab seeks revenge on the creature that took his leg, will the crew survive thier fateful encounter? Or will this be another cautionary tale to be passed throug the ages?
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.