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Author: Meghan Marentette Publisher: Pajama Press Inc. ISBN: 1927485339 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 243
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Rory Stowaway's family tradition of adventure hunting comes to an end when his grampa comes up missing. That is, until he discovers his Gran knows what really happened to his Grampa.
Author: Meghan Marentette Publisher: Pajama Press Inc. ISBN: 1927485339 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 243
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Rory Stowaway's family tradition of adventure hunting comes to an end when his grampa comes up missing. That is, until he discovers his Gran knows what really happened to his Grampa.
Author: Robert Hough Publisher: Vintage Canada ISBN: 0307369595 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 233
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The Stowaway is at once a thrilling maritime adventure and a thought-provoking morality tale based on real-life events. The novel begins in the spring of 1996 when Rodolfo Miguel, a bosun on the Taiwanese container ship Maersk Dubai, discovers a hungry and frightened pair of Romanian stowaways. He presents them to his officers, fully expecting that they’ll be put to work or else dropped off at the nearest port. Instead, he and his fellow Filipino crewmen watch in silent horror as the Romanians are cast overboard in a flimsy raft only to disappear beneath the ship’s wake. The Stowaway moves seamlessly between two storylines. Aboard the Maersk Dubai, Rodolfo and his crewmen must deal with the emotional trauma of what they’ve seen – as well as grapple with how to act on what they know. The atmosphere on the ship grows increasingly tense as fear, anxiety and paranoia grip the Filipino sailors. Trapped witnesses to a crime, they wonder whom they can trust and whether they themselves will meet with the same fate as the stowaways. Meanwhile, a nineteen-year-old Romanian named Daniel Pacepa heads out on a nail-biting adventure from Bucharest to Algeciras. Poor, brave and full of youthful indiscretion, Daniel is desperate to stow away on a ship and head to a better life in America. Along the way, he meets another Romanian named Gheorghe and together they perform cheap labour, pose as evangelical Christians and do whatever it takes to find their way to the Spanish port of Algeciras. Eventually the two stories merge when Daniel and Gheorghe sneak onto the ill-fated Maersk Dubai. One man is killed, the other discovered by Rodolfo. Once again, the Filipino crewmen find themselves faced with an excruciating moral dilemma. Do they risk their own personal safety to save the life of a complete stranger? All of the scenes involving the Filipino sailors are as close to the truth as Robert Hough could manage based on exhaustive interviews with the crewmen as well as on their letters and journals. Though Hough invented the Romanians’ land adventure, he based the story on considerable research, including interviews with Romanian-Canadians who had lived under the Ceausescu regime. Hough was widely praised for the deft way in which he mixes fact and fiction in The Stowaway. The critics were also unanimous in their admiration for the novel’s ability to seduce with suspense while at the same time posing profound issues for the reader to ponder. “This is a powerful novel that artfully combines the vivid, breathless pacing of the best adventure stories with the moral and metaphysical depth of the best literary fiction,” said Quill & Quire. And from the Vancouver Sun: “Harnessing the force of fiction and the weight of history, Hough has created a powerful, deeply human masterpiece out of tragedy and inhumanity.”
Author: Steve Brezenoff Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1434246736 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 113
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When a teacup from the special collection of Titanic artifacts transports Tucker and Maya back to the day the Titanic sunk, they set out to find their new friend Liam and his family--can they convince the captain to change the ship's course and rewrite history before the ship hits the iceberg?
Author: John David Anderson Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062985965 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 311
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The beloved author of Posted and Ms. Bixby's Last Day returns with the first book in a coming-of-age sci-fi duology about Leo, a kid trying to navigate the galaxy in order to save his family—and, possibly, the planet Earth. When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral buried in the Earth’s crust, they have no idea that it just happens to be the most valuable substance in the entire universe. It’s not long before aliens show up to our little corner of the galaxy offering a promise of protection, some fabulous new technology, and entry into their intergalactic coalition—all in exchange for this precious resource. A material so precious that other alien forces are willing to start a war over it. A war that soon makes its way to Earth. Leo knows this all too well. His mother was killed in one such attack, and soon after, his father, a Coalition scientist, decides it would be best for them to leave Earth behind. It’s on this expedition that their ship is attacked, Leo’s father is kidnapped, and Leo and his brother are stranded in the middle of space. The only chance they have is for Leo to stow away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates bound for who knows where and beg the captain to help him find his father. But the road is dangerous, and pirates, of course, only look out for themselves. Leo must decide who to trust as he tries to stay alive and save his family, even as he comes to understand that there aren’t many people—human or alien—that he can count on in this brave new universe.
Author: Roger McGough Publisher: Galaxy Children's Large Print ISBN: 9780745117027 Category : Languages : en Pages : 83
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Midge and his friend are eager for adventure, but what with stowing away on a ferry boat instead of a proper ship, and then losing their buried treasure, things don't go as they planned. Suggested level: primary.
Author: Karen Hesse Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0689839871 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
Author: Sean Christie Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers ISBN: 1868426912 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 355
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Beneath the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover on Cape Town's foreshore live a community of stowaways, young Tanzanian men from the slums of Dar es Salaam. When journalist Sean Christie meets Adam Bashili, he comes to know the extraordinary world of the Beachboys, a multi-port, fourth-generation subculture that lives to stow away and stows away to survive. But as Sean starts to accompany the Beachboys on trips around their everyday Cape Town, he becomes more than a casual observer, serving as sometime moneylender, driver, confidant and scribe, and eventually joining Adam on an unprecedented tour of Dar es Salaam's underworld and a reckless run down Africa's east coast. Under Nelson Mandela Boulevard remaps both city and continent, introducing us to the places and people we so frequently overlook.
Author: Victoria McKernan Publisher: Laurel Leaf ISBN: 0307545660 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 338
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On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in exploration: the crossing of the Antarctic continent. The crew stood on deck to watch the city fade away. All but one. Eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow hid below in a locker. But the thrill of stowing away with the legendary explorer would soon turn to fear. Within months, the Endurance, trapped and crushed by ice, sank. And even Perce, the youngest member of the stranded crew, knew there was no hope of rescue. If the men were to survive in the most hostile place on earth, they would have to do it on their own. Victoria McKernan deftly weaves the hard-to-fathom facts of this famous voyage into an epic, edge-of-your-seat survival novel.
Author: Kristiana Gregory Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks ISBN: 9780590488235 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 144
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In 1818 Carlito, an eleven-year-old boy in the Spanish-owned town of Monterey, California, sees his quiet life threatened when the Argentinian privateer Hippolyte de Bouchard attacks with his pirate ships.
Author: Meghan Marentette
Author: Meghan Marentette
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