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81) Boats on the bay
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Illustrations and easy to read text portray a variety of vessels, from houseboats to dredgers, through the course of a busy day on the bay.
82) Summer of pearls
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Ben Crowell remembers the Great Caddo Lake Pearl Rush of 1874. He was fourteen that year, and his home, the riverboat community of Port Caddo, was dying. By the end of the summer, the pearl boom was over, Port Caddo was doomed, and the mystery over who killed Judd Kelso began. It took Ben forty years to solve the mystery, and once he did, the proof came only for him to witness. He is the only living soul who will know what happened that September...
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Description
Cynical and insecure, Iris has long been envious of her twin sister Summer's seemingly never-ending good fortune... including her perfect husband Adam. Called to Thailand to help her sister sail the family yacht to the Seychelles, Iris unexpectedly finds herself alone in the middle of the Indian Ocean. When she makes it to land, Iris allows herself to be swept up by Adam, who assumes that she is Summer. Now she has the golden life she's always envied,...
86) Speedboats
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title offers readers cool facts about speedboats, including what they?re made of, what they can do, and how they are used. The title also includes a photo diagram, glossary, and an additional resources section. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
87) Boats will float
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text observe a wide variety of boats that spend all day, from early morning until dreamy night, on a bay, in the ocean, or under the sea.
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 33
Description
"In River-Horse, the preeminent chronicler of American back roads - who has given us the classics Blue Highways and PrairyErth - recounts his singular voyage on American waters from sea to sea. Along the route, he offers a lyrical shipboard perspective on the country's rivers, lakes, canals, and landscapes." "In his most ambitious journey ever, Heat-Moon sets off aboard a small boat he named Nikawa ("river horse" in Osage) from the Atlantic at New...
91) The missing
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
After the devastation in France just as World War I, Sam Simoneaux went back to New Orleans eager for a normal life. But when a little girl disappears from a department store on his shift, he loses his job and soon joins her parents working on a steamboat plying the Mississippi. Sam comes to suspect that on the downriver journey someone had seen this magical child and arranged to steal her away, and this quest leads him not only into this raucous...
92) Dory story
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While taking a bath with his new red toy dory, a boy imagines himself alone on the ocean getting a first-hand look at the ocean's food chain.
93) Barefoot summer
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
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Description
In the years since her twin brother's drowning, Madison has struggled to put it behind her. Despite the support of her close-knit family and her gratifying job as a veterinarian in their riverside town, the loss still haunts her. To find closure, Madison sets out to fulfill his dream of winning the town's annual regatta. But first she has to learn to sail, and fast. She'll even work with the infamous Beckett to reach her goal. Can their romance survive...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Angelina can hardly wait to perform her new dance at the Mouseland Dance Festival. She can't stop practicing all the way there, on her grandparents' canal boat, and she's so wrapped up in her great performance that she causes havoc on board. How will she ever be the star of the show?
97) Mokie & Bik
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
For two rambunctious twins, living on a boat means always being underfoot or overboard.
100) Ships
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Text and illustrations teach young children about different types of ships, their parts, and what they are used for.