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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress...
Author
Language
English
Description
Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
3) Iceberg
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery--until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First Edition.
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A mouse stowaway on NASA's first human mission to Mars becomes a hero when one of the landing craft's engines fails. Includes facts about Mars.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her--a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Late one night, Slipper the cat awakens to find a furry-booted man in her home and, like any curious cat would, climbs into his big red sack.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eli is a young stowaway on a ship bound for North America. A strange birthmark on his arm, in the shape of a dragon, begins to sting. Then he meets a sailor on the ship with a dragon tattoo. The tattoo, and a weird cargo hidden on the ship, hold the secret to Eli's real identity.
9) The Titanic
Author
Series
Survival tails volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
190 pages, 29 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A stowaway dog and the captain's cat forge an unlikely friendship as they race to protect three kittens, help their humans, and survive the sinking of the Titanic" --
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (77 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Presents a graphic novel adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of Arthur Gordon Pym, a stowaway on a Nantucket whaleship, who faces mutiny, cannibalism, and savagery during his fateful sea voyage. Includes a glossary, author information, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Frankie is an orphan (or a reluctant wife). Mave is an autodidact (or the town pariah). Nan is an artist (or the town whore). Each separately haunted, Frankie, Mave, and Nan - with a hound in tow - set out in an Oldsmobile Royale for Abiquiú and the desert of Georgia O'Keeffe, seeking an escape from everything they've known.Frankie records the journey in letters to her aunt Mave's dead lover, a linguist named Ruth, sketching out her troubled life...
Author
Series
Adventurers quartet volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marrying the seemingly delicate Lady Edwina Delbraith, Declan Frobisher discovers that his new bride is unconventional and strong-willed after she accompanies him on a secret mission that leads them to unexpected enemies--and love.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (91 pages).
Language
English
Description
In 1535, thirteen-year-old Samuel de la Loire, from a wealthy and aristocratic family in St. Malo, France, yearns for adventure. He stows away on one of Jacques Cartier's ships, which is returning to the New World in search of gold and the mythical Kingdom of Saguenay. What he finds instead is a struggle for survival--especially after he is left behind when the ships sail back to France.
16) The jinx
Author
Series
Misfit's life for me volume I
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth is tired of being mistreated in her orphanage, so she runs away and hides in a ship's cargo hold. But when the ship sets sail, two crewmen discover her during a storm. They think she's a jinx! What will become of Elizabeth now?" -- Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lintang's dream of adventure on the high seas comes true when Captain Shafira invites her to join her pirate crew, but Lintang's best friend, Bayani, has stowed away and is keeping secrets." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
In due time volume 4
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Simon Spotlight paperback edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Smart but clumsy Grace travels through time to stow away on the Apollo 11 spaceship and become the first kid to walk on the Moon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Omaha, Tom Calvert boards a riverboat to play high-stakes poker, but accusations of cheating cause some serious trouble, and a deadly gun battle ensues. Tom is injured and knows that his enemies will be looking for him, so he reluctantly accepts a bargain from young stowaway Asher. In exchange for Calvert teaching him gunslinging skills, Asher will guide them to a possibly mythical town of peace and plenty called Friendly Field. To get there they...