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1) Moby-Dick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered by many readers to be the Great American Novel. But most don't know that since its appearance in 1851, it has been revised in substantial ways that alter its original meaning. Melville's masterpiece is described as a "fluid text": it exists in multiple versions, each revealing shifting intentions. The new Longman Critical Edition offers unprecedented access to the revisions that Melville made, the further...
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Looking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab. Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but...
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Wolves Chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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When Dido finds life unbearable in the Nantucket farmhouse she is left at, she finds adventure involving terrorists and Miss Slighcarp.
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2011.
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Following an incident with an escaped tiger, nineteenth-century London street urchin Jaffy Brown goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition to the Dutch East Indies. They succeed in catching the reptilian beast, but when the ship's whaling...
6) Whale snow
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Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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At the first whaling feast of the season, a young Inupiat boy learns about the importance of the bowhead whale to his people and their culture. Includes facts about Inupiats and the bowhead whale.
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[c1960]
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'It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.'
Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures - mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism - narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its antihero with a host of psychological dilemmas, and offers an important insight...
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Faroes volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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"When a group of international activists arrive on the FaroeŁIslands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensionsŁbetween islanders and protestors run high. And when aŁwoman is found viciously murdered only hours after a violentŁconfrontation, the circumstances seem purposely designed toŁincrease animosity between the two sides. As English DI Jan Reyna and local detective Hjalti HentzeŁinvestigate, it becomes increasingly clear...
11) Moby Dog
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Adventures of Wishbone volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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While pursuing the stranger who ran off with Joe's basketball, Wishbone imagines himself to be the young sailor Ishmael on Captain Ahab's whaling ship chasing the great white whale, Moby Dick, across the seven seas.
12) Water sky
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for awhile learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture.
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[2024]
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"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...
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2003
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They were the whalers of the nineteenth century, leaving home for months, nay years at a time, in search of the largest creatures of the earth. It was their job to hunt these mammoth sea dwellers for their oil and feed the trade in hopes of raising enough coin to feed their families back in port. They are the hunters of the dark sea, in search of the deadly behemoth that is their stock and trade. It is a life and death profession where even the greenest...
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Pirates (Gideon Defoe) volume 1
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Moby-Dick...No, not since Treasure Island...Actually, not since Jonah and the Whale has there been a sea saga to rival The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, featuring the greatest sea-faring hero of all time, the immortal Pirate Captain, who, although he lives for months at a time at sea, somehow manages to keep his beard silky and in good condition. Worried that his pirates are growing bored with a life of winking at pretty native ladies...
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[1988]
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The only full-length novel by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" was first published in 1838. It is the story of a boy from Nantucket, Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship, the "Grampus", with the help of his friend Augustus, the ship captain's son. Pym and Augustus experience many unexpected adventures and misfortunes at sea, including mutiny, violent storms, cannibalism, and the destruction of the ship. Eventually,...
20) Loud Emily
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A little girl with a big voice who lives in a nineteenth-century whaling town finds a way to be useful and happy aboard a sailing ship.