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Pirate Pete receives a letter with a treasure map! What surprises await him? Told mostly through vividly colored, action-oriented pictures and very basic sentences (in large type), this story is a great selection for pirate and adventure lovers. (Reading Level: 2.5)
Book Series: Tadpoles
Reviewed by: emc
Date read: 4/14/2011
ISBN-10: 9780778738619
ISBN-13: 9780778738619
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Pirates!: The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, Female Pirates
Celia Rees (2005), 384 pages
Audience: 7th Grade - 8th Grade
After arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, and together they become pirates, traveling the world of 1722, in search of treasure.
Reviewed by: sc
Date read: 3/25/2009
ISBN-10: 1582346658
ISBN-13: 9781582346656
Porcupine Year
Louise Erdrich (2008), 208 pages
Illustrated by Louise Erdrich
Audience: 6th Grade - 8th Grade
When Omakayas, an Ojibwe girl, is twelve years old, her family is forced by white settlers to find a new home. Along the way, her brother has a run-in with a porcupine which he decides to keep as his medicine animal. For awhile the porcupine seems to bring them good luck, but then two of their men are kidnapped and later their supplies are stolen. Omakayas is also worried about Old Tallow, the woman who rescued Omakayas as a child and whom Omakayas loves like a mother. The journey is long and the winter is harsh but Omakayas' family finally reaches the lake where her extended family has settled. This beautiful story weaves in Ojibwe culture and family life. The sequel to The Birchbark House and The Game of Silence.
Reviewed by: hap
Date read: 3/24/2010
ISBN-10: 0060297883
ISBN-13: 9780060297886
Gen is finally caught by the Queen of Attolia, and she exacts her revenge by taking something he cannot live without. When war looms between the two kingdoms Gen must steal a man, and then a queen. Can the Queen's Thief overcome his loss and save his kingdom? What will the Queen of Attolia do to save her throne? This thrilling sequal to The Thief is followed by The King of Attolia.
Similar books: Percy Jackson and the Olympians seris by Rick Riordan;
Bloody Jack series by L. A. Meyer
Reviewed by: djd
Date read: 8/10/2009
ISBN-10: 068817423X
ISBN-13: 9780688174231
Ranger's Apprentice: The Lost Stories
John Flanagan (2011), 422 pages
Audience: 5th Grade - 8th Grade
It is July 1896 and Professor Giles McFarlane is leading a group of archeology students in exploring the remains of what they believe is Redmont Castle. He is hoping to find some shred of evidence that the stories about the mysterious Ranger Corps of Araluen were a reality and not a folktale. What he finds surpasses all of his expectations and it will answer some of the questions fans of the Ranger's Apprentice series were left with after The Emperor of Nihon-Ja. Enjoy this collection of stories that brings this popular series to a close.
Book Series: The Ranger's Apprentice
Reviewed by: caroll
Date read: 1/10/2012
ISBN-13: 9780399256089
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