Moby Dick
Herman Melville's classic novel about a young seaman who joins the crew of a whaling ship commanded by the fanatical Captain Ahab, who is in pursuit of a white whale.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 340
subjects: adventure, classics, whales, ahab, captain (fictitious character), whaling ships, ship captains, whaling, high interest /low vocabulary books, ahab, captain (fictional character), sea stories [X], mentally ill, audiobooks, adventure fiction, graphic novels, revenge, de ballenas - ficcion, reading materials, comic books, strips, etc, ocean, spanish language, sea stories [X], donation, adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, psychological fiction, psychological fiction, adventure stories
The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle
When 13 year-old Charlotte Doyle boarded the Seahawk in June of 1832, she never dreamed that the crew would mutiny and that her life would be in danger.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 188
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: transatlantic voyages, murder, sea stories [X], historical fiction, mystery and detective stories, homicide, large type books, mutiny, sex role, self-perception, ships, mystery fiction, ocean travel, compact discs, audiobooks, voyages and travels, adventure fiction, newbery honor book, sea stories [X], historical fiction, mystery fiction
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Jules Verne's classic nineteenth-century science-fiction tale about a French professor and his companions who are trapped aboard a futuristic submarine with a mad sea captain and come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
FIC
year: 9942
copies: 81
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030
subjects: science fiction, submarines, underwater exploration, submarines (ships), sea stories [X], sea stories, adventure and adventurers, science fiction-, submarines(ships), underwater eploration, sea monsters, graphic novels, donation, verne, jules, adventure graphic novels, comic books, strips, etc, sea stories [X], graphic novels, science fiction, sea fiction, action and adventure fiction, adventure fiction, adventure stories, cartoons and comics
The Sea-wolf
When Humphrey Van Weyden finds himself sailing to Japan aboard the Ghost, he has to face weeks of brutality at the hands of Captain Wolf Larsen, until he decides to take desperate measures to save himself and the rest of the crew.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020
subjects: sealers (persons), sealing ships, ship captains, arctic regions, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, seafaring life, sea stories [X], shipwrecks, london, jack, american literature, fiction, allegories, adventure stories, seafaring life fiction, sea stories [X], adventure fiction
Ruby Redfort Take Your Last Breath
Skilled code-cracker and detective Ruby Redfort has an adventure at sea in which she must crack the case of the Twinford pirates while avoiding a vile sea monster and the evil Count von Viscount.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: teenage girls, pirates, ciphers, teenagers, girls, sea stories [X], mystery fiction, code and cipher stories, sea stories [X], mystery fiction
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
"[T]hree men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine the Nautilus.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030
subjects: submarines, sea stories [X], science fiction, underwater exploration, submarines (ships), fiction in english translations from french, french fiction translations into english, science fiction, sea fiction, nemo, captain (fictitious character), sea stories [X], action and adventure fiction, nemo, nautilus (imaginary submarine)
Moby Dick, Or, The Whale
An abridgement of the nineteenth-century novel in which a young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod whose fanatical Captain Ahab is in determined pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 33
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: whales, whaling, sea stories [X], ahab, captain (fictitious character), ahab, captain (fictional character), mental illness, whaling ships, ship captains, mentally ill, shipwrecks, fiction, adventure fiction, adventure stories, epic literature, sea stories [X], allegories, electronic books
Billy Budd, Sailor And Other Stories
Contains seven fiction stories by nineteenth-century American author Herman Melville, including the title work in which Billy Budd, a handsome and innocent sailor, becomes the target of a plot by the jealous master-at-arms to frame him for treason.
FIC
year: 1986
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1430
subjects: short stories, adventure fiction, sea stories [X], adventure stories, good and evil, short stories, sea stories [X]
Captains Courageous
Bored and lonely, the son of a millionaire is on an ocean voyage.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020
subjects: children of the rich, saltwater fishing, fishing boats, teenage boys, rescues, grand banks of newfoundland, self-reliance, fishers, sea stories [X], schooners, boys, deep sea fishing, fishing, new england, sea fiction, large type books, seafaring life, rich, large print books, rich people, teenagers, bildungsromans, bildungsromans, sea stories [X]
Moby Dick
The Pequod, commanded by peg-legged Captain Ahab, sets out on a whaling voyage.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: whaling, sea stories [X], whales, adventure fiction, adventure stories, epic literature, sea stories [X], allegories, ahab, captain (fictitious character)
Nostromo
In a small South American state, a silver mine owner, Charles Gould, puts a consignment of silver in the charge of a foreman.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1160
subjects: sailors, revolutions, latin america, sea stories [X], political fiction, adventure fiction, political fiction, adventure stories, sea stories [X]
The Doll People Set Sail
"Annabelle Doll, Tiffany Funcraft, and their families journey far from home"--Provided by publisher.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 36
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
The Boy Who Cried Shark
Harry Hammer thinks he sees a fierce great white shark near Shark Point.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: self-esteem, errors, sharks, squids, sea stories [X], marine animals, seas, adventure and adventurers, sea stories [X], adventure fiction
Cephalox
Max and his robodog Rivet attempt to rescue Max's kidnapped father from a giant cyber squid, and on the way they encounter Lia, princess of the underwater Merryns, on her quest to recover the magical items stolen from her people.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: kidnapping, squids, robots, ocean, adventure and adventurers, science fiction, sea stories [X], adventure fiction, sea stories [X], adventure fiction, science fiction
Treasure Island
Presents Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story of a boy who embarks on a grand and dangerous adventure after he and his innkeeper mother find a treasure map to a pirate's fortune while going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money.
468
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: 468
lexile:
subjects: treasure island (imaginary place), buried treasure, bilingual books, pirates, sea stories [X], sea stories [X]