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Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.
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Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire"--
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower...
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 1
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Disgraced after being expelled from the military academy, Kylara Vatta goes home to face her family. Given one last chance to redeem herself, she is sent on a mission to take an old Vatta Transport ship to the scrap yard. However, this mundane assignment turns into the mission from hell.
Author
Series
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Disgraced after being expelled from the military academy, Kylara Vatta goes home to face her family. Given one last chance to redeem herself, she is sent on a mission to take an old Vatta Transport ship to the scrap yard. However, this mundane assignment turns into the mission from hell.
Author
Series
Mississippi Valley volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mark Lafitte, leader of a bumbled mutiny aboard a merchant ship lost in the Gulf of Mexico, is convinced that he is a dead man when he is marooned for his sins on the swampy wilderness shore of the French Louisiana Colony. That prediction nearly comes true multiple times during his years of slavery to an isolated Indian tribe, but somehow he survives. Eventually French traders rescue him and lead him back to a dangerous little settlement along the...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and company
Pub. Date
1932.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The captain of the HMS Bounty, William Bligh, was a competent seaman, but a harsh disciplinarian. This prompts his crew to mutiny, setting him adrift in the South Pacific. The crew returns to the tropical paradise of Tahiti, while Bligh survives an astounding journey back to England. This novel is based on the incredible true story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master's mate on Achilles. Kydd sails for England, but his joy at returning home is soon forgotten when he finds himself at the centre of one of the most extraordinary events in English history- the Mutiny at the Nore. Ten thousand men and scores of ships hold the country to ransom. Kydd is faced with a terrible choice. Abandon his friends and shipmates? Or join the rebellion?
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
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