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3) Coot club
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dorothy and Dick have an adventure in the English countryside, involving frantic chases, calamitous boat collisions, and the attempts of their friends to protect nesting birds from rude holiday boaters.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A lively story with humorous illustrations, ideal for children who are beginning to read for themselves, or for reading aloud together. With simple rhyming text and phonic repetition specially designed to develop essential language and early reading skills" --
7) Wrecker
Author
Language
English
Description
"Valdez Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat? The men in the boat don't want Wrecker to call for help--in fact, they'll pay him to forget he ever saw them. Wrecker would be happy to forget, but he keeps seeing these men all over Key West--at the...
Author
Series
Song of the current volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Caroline Oresteia, seventeen, finally has a chance to be a wherryman, she gets caught in a web of politics and lies with her father's life at stake.
9) Red kayak
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sal loves the water. All day, he thinks about it: being out there, just him and the waves, alone. More than anything else, he wants a boat. And he knows just what it would look like. So he decides to build it himself. It isn't long before everyone in town starts sharing advice. But Sal doesn't need their help. He knows just what he's building. And he does it! Except...he forgets one crucial detail--that no project, big or small, can be launched without...
13) Float
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
"Wordless picture book about a boy who loses his paper boat in the rain"--
14) Finding Papa
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Follows young Mai and her mother's perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa--who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family"--
15) Wishes
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In this spare, poetic picture book based on author Muon Van's family history and told through a series of wishes, a family packs up everything they own and embarks on a perilous oceanic voyage toward a better life"--
16) Little Boat
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Little Boat has a lot to watch out for: big boats, waves, rain, and rough weather--but he is brave and determined, and in the end he is reunited with his parents.
17) Boats for Papa
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Buckley and his mother cope with the loss of their father/husband by sending small wooden boats, built by Buckley, off into the ocean.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
There are bunnies in a boat, and they're causing a maelstrom in Sunny Bay! The Sunny Town creatures are all out to play in the surf and sand when, whoosh, there goes a speedboat full of bunnies. Watch them crash into a sandcastle, whisk the sails off boats, zip their way to the airport, and run for the plane's cockpit ... oh no!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lily the sailboat is small but sturdy, in a harbor full of enormous cargo ships, speedy fishing vessels, and bossy tugboats...Out on the lake, the tall ships are coming! To pass from the harbor to the lake, Lily must blow her horn and ask the lift bridge to rise...Finally, Lily slips under just before the bridge goes down, her sails fluttering with excitement as she spies the majestic barquentine, schooner, and other grand old ships heading toward...
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