Brian James
Author
Series
Pirate school volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Hoping to be taken seriously by Rotten Tooth, who is supposed to be training them to be pirates, nine-year-old Pete leads his friends in an attempt to beat the grown-ups in finding the treasure buried on Snake Island and stealing it from the giant snake that guards it.
Author
Series
Pirate School volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When, after finding buried treasure guarded by giant sand crabs, the crew of the Sea Rat comes down with a mysterious illness, the pirate students suspect that the treasure is cursed.
4) Yo-ho-ho!
Author
Series
Pirate School volume 7
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Concerned that Santa will not be able to find them aboard the Sea Rat, Pete and the other pirate kids plot a course to the North Pole, where the ship gets stuck in a sheet of ice.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Sabrina meets Alec at the Wellness Center where she is being treated for schizophrenia, he tries to persuade her that it is the world that is crazy, not them, and she should defy her doctors rather than lose what makes her creative and special.
Author
Series
Pirate School volume 6
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Captain Stinky Beard's pirate students, who want to win without cheating, compete in sailing races, treasure hunts, and swashbuckling events at Camp Buccaneer.
Author
Series
Pirate school volume 8
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
While spending a week on the Bone Rattler, a ship that is not exactly ship-shape, the pirates-in-training get stuck in Shipwreck Pass and must come up with a creative plan to save the Bone Rattler and find the treasure Captain Stinky beard seeks.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The young pirates-in-training list suspicious things in the port city of King's Island while running errands for Rotten Tooth, but he dismisses their concerns, leaving the "wee pirate kids" on their own to deal with strange events occurring on The Sea Rat after they return.
11) Spooky hayride
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008, c2003
Language
English
Description
While on a hayride, two brothers try to scare each other.
Author
Series
Pirate school volume 3
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A boring homework assignment involving knot tying proves invaluable when the student pirates help Captain Stinky Beard foil an attack by a rival pirate ship.
Author
Series
Pirate school volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
While on lookout duty, the students of Pirate School spy a ghost ship following them, and when they bravely board it they receive a warning that may save their lives, if only they can convince Rotten Tooth or the captain that danger lies ahead.
16) Zombie blondes
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Each time fifteen-year-old Hannah and her out-of-work father move she has some fears about making friends, but a classmate warns her that in Maplecrest, Vermont, the cheerleaders really are monsters.
17) The forsaken
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched. Now evidence has surfaced of his innocence, and county sheriff Quinn Colson sets out not only to identify the stranger's remains, but to charge those responsible for the lynching. As he...
18) Raylan
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, "If I have to pull my gun I'll shoot to kill." Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico, it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way one stabbed the other to death. The remaining officer was eventually killed by Plains Indians, but he buried the treasure just before he died. Now Ronan Chantry, a handful of trappers, and an Irish girl whose father was killed after telling her a few vague landmarks...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
It is almost impossible to understand how 300 Spartans managed to hold off the million-man Persian army, but with transporting dramatizations and incisive graphics that put you in the heat of battle, learn the strategies and more in this historic battle.