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Iain Lawrence
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Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Readers will relish this companion to the highly acclaimed adventure, The Wreckers:
Young John is charmed by the Dragon, the schooner he is planning to sail to London and use for the honest wool trade. But a mysterious gentleman delivers an ominous warning to "steer clear of that ship," because the ship was "christened with blood." The ship looks clever and quick, and the crew seems to know...
Young John is charmed by the Dragon, the schooner he is planning to sail to London and use for the honest wool trade. But a mysterious gentleman delivers an ominous warning to "steer clear of that ship," because the ship was "christened with blood." The ship looks clever and quick, and the crew seems to know...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Three years have passed since Squid McCrae last saw her parents and the remote island where she grew up. She returns now at seventeen, a young woman with a daughter in tow. The visit, she knows, will be rough. Lizzie Island--paradise to some, a stifling prison to others--brings an onslaught of memories. It is the place of Squid's idyllic childhood, where she and her brother, Alastair, blossomed into precocious adolescents. But Lizzie Island is
...3) The wreckers
Author
Series
High seas trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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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.
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Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Virgil Pepper is returning to Little Lost Lake in Oregon with his older brother and sister to scatter their mother's ashes in the place she loved best, but when their van breaks down in the middle nowhere, it is up to Virgil, who shared his mother's love of science and the wild, to remember and use all the lessons she taught him to survive a forest fire started by a lightning strike.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"12-year-old Igor and his family have been on the run from the sinister figure he calls The Lizard Man for as long as he can remember and he wishes that they could just live a normal life"--
Twelve-year-old Igor yearns for a normal life, but since he was five and his father witnessed a crime,his family has been on the run from the sinister figure he calls The Lizard Man.
9) The convicts
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force thirteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.
10) The cannibals
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Tom Tin and his friend Midgely--with assorted juvenile criminals--escape the ship taking them to serve their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and cannibals.
11) The castaways
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are taught to be sailors by two black-hearted castaways they rescue, and sail to a Caribbean island where they make important new friends and enemies.
12) Gemini summer
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In 1965, Danny's grief over the death of his older brother Beau is eased when a stray puppy adopts him, but he soon realizes that Beau is somehow in the dog, and sets out to make his brother's dream of seeing a rocket launch at Cape Kennedy come true.
13) The giant-slayer
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.