Ships and Sailors

Sailors, captains, terrible ocean storms, shipwrecks and sea shanties - you'll find all of these topics and more in this feature about ships and the people who sailed them.

For more on the topic, see features on the Mayflower and the Titantic, two very famous ships.

Little Rat Sets Sail

Little Rat Sets Sail

Monika Bang-Campbell
Illustrator:   Molly Garrett Bang 
Fiction  Series
For ages 6 to 9
Harcourt, 2003   ISBN: 978-0152047696
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Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey

Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey

Maira Kalman
Nonfiction Picture Book
For ages 4 to 7
Penguin, 2005   ISBN: 978-0142403624
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Armada: Thomas Hobbs, England 1587-1588

Armada: Thomas Hobbs, England 1587-1588

Jim Eldridge
Historical Fiction
For ages 12 and up
Scholastic UK, 2002   ISBN: 978-0439981125
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Little Toot

Little Toot

Hardie Gramatky
Picture Book
For ages 3 to 7
Penguin, 2007   ISBN: 978-0399247132
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Victory

Victory

Susan Cooper
Historical Fiction
For ages 12 and up
Simon and Schuster, 2013   ISBN: 978-1442480797
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Avi
Fiction
For ages 12 and up
Scholastic, 2003   ISBN: 978-0439327312
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Castaway Cats

Castaway Cats

Lisa Wheeler
Illustrator:  Ponder Goembel 
Picture Book
For ages 4 to 7
Simon and Schuster, 2006   ISBN: 978-0689862328
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Civil War Sub: The Mystery of the Hunley

Civil War Sub: The Mystery of the Hunley

Kate Boehm Jerome
Illustrator:  Bill Farnsworth , Frank Sofo 
Nonfiction
For ages 7 to 9
Penguin, 2002   ISBN: 978-0448425979
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