Pirates Ahoy!
| Peter and the Starcatchers | Barry, Dave | YA F Barry | | Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island. | | Nick of Time | Bell, Ted | YA F Bell | | With the help of Lord Hawke, whose children have been taken by the evil pirate Captain Billy Blood, young Nick McIver uses a time machine to rescue the two children. | | The Princetta | Bondoux, Anne-Laure | YA F Bondoux | | Rebelling against the rigid constraints of her life as Princetta of Galnicia, fifteen-year-old Malva escapes with her maid Philomena and together they embark on a perilous and adventurous journey that will change the course of their lives forever. | | Sebastian Darke: Prince of Pirates | Dahl, Michael | YA F Caverny | | Having concluded that he will never be a jester, half-elvish seventeen-year-old Sebastian sets out with his friends to seek buried pirate treasure but someone--or something--is following them. | | The Coral Coffin | Dahl, Michael | YA F Dahl | | While searching for his missing archeologist parents in the Great Barrier Reef, Finn is separated from his Uncle Stoppard by a tropical storm and picked up by a ship led by the notorious female pirate, Blue Jade. | | The Princess Bride | Goldman, William | YA F Goldman | | A story that has everything: fencing, fighting, torture, poison, true love, revenge, giants, beautiful ladies, snakes, beasts of all natures and descriptions, chases, escapes, lies, truths, passion, miracles, and yes, even a pirate! | | Rhiannon | Grove, Vicki | YA F Grove | | When an accusation of murder hits too close to home, fourteen-year-old Rhiannon, who lives high on the bluff of Clodaghcombe, stands up to the aristocracy, hatching a dangerous plan to expose the real killer with the help of a mysterious French pirate and a young monk. | | Captain Hook | Hart, J.V. | YA F Hart | | Describes the youthful adventures of J. M. Barrie’s classic character, Captain Hook, from his days at Eton to his voyages on the high sea. | | Dark Frigate | Hawes, Charles Boardman | YA F Hawes | | In Seventeenth century England, an accident forces orphaned Philip Marsham to flee London in fear for his life. He signs on with the Rose of Devon, a dark frigate. When the ship is seized by a devious group of men, Philip is forced to accompany these “gentleman of fortune” on their murderous expeditions. Like it or not, Philip is now a pirate—with only the hangman awaiting his return to England.
| | The Angel’s Command | Jacques, Brian | YA F Jacques | | Ben and Ned, a boy and dog gifted with eternal youth, able to communicate with one another telepathically. In this Castaways adventure they find themselves on board a Frenchman’s pirate ship. The two companions manage to escape, only to tumble into an encounter with the most evil robber of all—the gypsy Maguda Razan. | | The Buccaneers | Lawrence, Iain | YA F Lawrence | | In the eighteenth-century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed. | | Piratica | Lee, Tanith | YA F Lee | | Artemesia is the daughter of a pirate queen, and she’s sick of practicing deportment at the Angels Academy for Young Maidens. Escaping from the school, she hunts up her mother’s crew and breezily commands them out to sea in a leaky boat. But her childhood memory of her mother’s piratical life might not be as accurate as she thought. | | The Pirate’s Son | McCaughrean, Geraldine | YA F McCaughrean | | Nathan Gull read and thought about pirates constantly. When his father dies, Nathan is tossed out of Graylake School with no prospects. He and his mousy sister, Maud, accept the offer of Tamo White, the son of a real pirate, to travel home with him to Madagascar. In a land Tamo calls Paradise, Nathan and Maud will find danger, magic, and murder along the way to finding themselves. | | Pirate Curse | Meyer, Kai | YA F Meyer | | In a place similar to the 1706 Caribbean, two fourteen-year-old “polliwogs”--humans who can walk on water--rely on a mysterious figure known as the Ghost Trader and a band of pirates to help them escape from the evil that is chasing them. | | Bloody Jack | Meyer, L. A. | YA F Meyer | | Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates. | | The Man with the Silver Oar | Moore, Robin | YA F Moore | | In 1718, fifteen-year-old Daniel leaves his uncle’s Quaker household to stowaway on a ship in pursuit of a pirate captain bent on raiding the coast of North America before returning to port in Hispaniola. | | Airborn | Oppel, Kenneth | YA F Oppel | | Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth’s surface. | | Mystery at Blackbeard’s Cove | Penn, Audrey | YA F Penn | | As Halloween approaches Ocracoke Island, Billy, Daniel, Stefanie, and Mark are helped by the ghosts of Blackbeard and the eccentric Mrs. McNemmish when they are held captive by the local scoundrel Zeek, who is searching for a hidden treasure. | | Tris’s Book | Pierce, Tamora | YA F Pierce | | With the defenses of Winding Circle Temple seriously weakened by an earthquake, Tris and her fellow mages-in-training try to join their different magic powers to protect the Winding Circle community from a pirate attack. | | The Ruby in the Smoke | Pullman, Philip | YA F Pullman | | In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby, encountering a pirate along the way. | | Once a Princess | Smith, Sherwood | YA F Smith | | Sasha's mother, Sun, was once swept away from Ren Faire to another world by a prince. But her prince disappeared, a wicked king took the throne. Now Sasha has been tricked into returning to Khanerenth, and Sun is furious. Was it the stylish pirate, Zathdar, or the artistic, dreaming Prince Jehan? | | Demons of the Ocean | Somper, Justin | YA F Somper | | When twins, Connor and Grace's, ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate's ship, and he is determined to find her. |
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