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2017., Adolescent, Flatiron Books Call No: FANTASY FIC GAR Edition: 1st U.S. ed.: January 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Two sisters, Scarlett and Tella, leave their cruel father to attend Caraval--a faraway once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show--and, along the way, Tella is kidnapped and Scarlett is aided by a mysterious sailor and finds herself enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic.
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Ã2017., Adolescent, Flatiron Books Call No: FANTASY FIC GAR Edition: 1st Flatiron Bks. pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Two sisters, Scarlett and Tella, leave their cruel father to attend Caraval--a faraway once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show--and, along the way, Tella is kidnapped and Scarlett is aided by a mysterious sailor and finds herself enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic.
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1955, Juvenile, Houghton Call No: 921 Bow Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.
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[2024]., Adolescent, Page Street YA Call No: FANTASY F CAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The townspeople hate Ophelia, daughter of a notorious pirate queen, because they believe she will repeat her mother's legacy. Ophelia only wants to join the navy to make amends for her mother's deeds so she steals her sister's birth certificate to enlist after being barred from joining because of her cursed reputation. But Ophelia soon discovers that a life at sea isn't as honorable as she hoped. When their father falls ill, Ophelia's half-sister Betsy asks the navy recall her sister, but in doing so reveals Ophelia's fraudulent enlistment. To save her sister from the naval authorities, she must overcome her anxieties and find her sea legs in a race to find Ophelia before the navy can. Between duels, unexpected romance, and lost treasures, the sisters realize that piracy runs in the family after all. .
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-- Sea you, sea mec2006., Juvenile, Papercutz : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers Call No: GR 741.5 LOBDELL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Frank and Joe go undercover to discover why teen seamen on an old fishing boat keep going missing.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: Historical Fiction FIC GUT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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[2018]., Adolescent, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical Fic Engle Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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2017., Skyhorse Publishing Call No: REALISTIC F PON Edition: First Skyhorse edit Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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-- Mermaid in the Hudson2012., First Second Call No: GN-FANTASY SAI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Captain Elijah Twain rescues a mermaid from the Hudson River and nurses her back to health in the secrecy of his cabin, while the owner of the steamboat Twain captains, Lafayette, harbors secrets of his own. Meanwhile, reclusive author C.G. Beaverton publishes a new book that may hold answers for both men.
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2015., North-South Books, Incorporated Call No: F SAI Edition: Trade edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The seven voyages of Sinbad, from A Thousand and One Arabian Nights, have been thrilling readers and listeners for generations. Sinbad, the merchant adventurer, encounters treasure, a sea-monster, the Old Man of the Sea, and more in this captivating and stunningly illustrated retelling.
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[2017], Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition: Apri Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The constellations come to life in this imaginative fantasy adventure debut.
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1983., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: LIP FIC Van Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: LIP Van Allsburg CollectionSummary Note: A boy's ambition to be the greatest sailor in the world brings him to ruin when he misuses his new ability to sail his boat in the air.\Sneak Peek: At the edge of a cliff lies the wreck of a small sailboat. How did it get there? "Waves carried it up in a storm," says an old sailor. But is it possible that waves could ever get that high? There is another story -- the story of a boy and his obsessive desire to be the greatest sailor, the story of a storm that carried the boy and his boat to a place where boats glide like gulls high above the water and not upon it. Chris Van Allsburg tells that story of the boy and his boat, the Zephyr, in words and haunting, full-color pastel paintings. His sailboats sail the night sky with the stars in pictures so vivid that the reader can almost hear the wind in the sails. Here is a work of unusual artistry that will enchant readers of all ages for many years to come.
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1983., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: LIP FIC Van Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: LIP Van Allsburg CollectionSummary Note: A boy's ambition to be the greatest sailor in the world brings him to ruin when he misuses his new ability to sail his boat in the air.\Sneak Peek: At the edge of a cliff lies the wreck of a small sailboat. How did it get there? "Waves carried it up in a storm," says an old sailor. But is it possible that waves could ever get that high? There is another story -- the story of a boy and his obsessive desire to be the greatest sailor, the story of a storm that carried the boy and his boat to a place where boats glide like gulls high above the water and not upon it. Chris Van Allsburg tells that story of the boy and his boat, the Zephyr, in words and haunting, full-color pastel paintings. His sailboats sail the night sky with the stars in pictures so vivid that the reader can almost hear the wind in the sails. Here is a work of unusual artistry that will enchant readers of all ages for many years to come.