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Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Language
English
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Travel with a team of scientists, and Bill Paxton, 12,500 feet down to the wreckage of the Titanic. Follow two mini robotic cameras as they explore the nooks and crannies of the ship, and experience the breathtaking images of the long ago glamorous ship. Astonishing footage, flawless digital animation, and ghostly re-creations of the ship's final hours are seamlessly combined to orient the viewer at an intersection of tragic past and awe-inspiring...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
NOW ON BROADWAY
The international bestseller and modern classic of adventure, survival, and the power of storytelling is now an award-winning play.
After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan—and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.
Soon
...24) The emerald sea
Author
Series
Glittering Court volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Tamsin Wright will do anything to reach the Glittering Court's top ranks and, even after a shipwreck exposes her to new cultures and beliefs, holds tight to the secret that would unravel everything if uncovered.
Author
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Details what life was like for sailors on whaling ships during the nineteenth century, including the duties of the crew, the whaling ship the Essex, how whales were processed, and how people survived a shipwreck or being lost at sea.
28) Escape
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
They didn't want to be on the boat in the first place. They didn't want to be stuck at sea with a bunch of strangers. But when you're in the midd of the Pacific Ocean, there's no way out. And when a terrifying storm hits, there's no way to fully prepare. It's all about survival.
29) Shipwreck
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows a group of six kids stranded on a deserted island as they embark on a quest for survival that tests their limits.
30) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been, written in 1610—11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit...
31) Brian's winter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Based on the remarkable true story of the Carpathia--the only ship and her legendary captain who answered the distress call of the sinking Titanic. Just after midnight on April 15, 1912, the passenger steamship Carpathia receives a distress signal from the largest passenger liner ever built, RMS Titanic, which is on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York. Captain Arthur Rostron is awakened to an enormous maritime emergency with...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic and moving re-imagination of the characters from Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, set against the backdrop of a late-nineteenth-century English Channel town that harbors many secrets. After a ferocious early springtime storm, young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand is shipwrecked in the English Channel near the coastal Kent town of Dengate; he is one of few survivors. Soon after, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job as the reporter...
Author
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Reviews the story of the Titanic, from its building to the inquiries that were conducted in the U.S. and Britain after it sank in 1912, taking into account the beliefs, attitudes, and ideas of the era which influenced the actions or inactions of people involved in the disaster.
38) Dark light
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Imagine hurricane winds over the Sahara Desert, preceded by a cavalry of tornadoes. Imagine dunes flattened, then resculpted. Then imagine all that at the bottom of the sea.
A Category 4 hurricane has swept the west coast of Florida, creating havoc, changing lives, and reshaping the ocean bottom. Well-known reefs and wrecks have been covered—and new ones have emerged.
From...
Author
Series
Magic tree house fact trackers volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of the steamship Titanic, from Thomas Andrews' plans for "the safest ship on the ocean" to the lingering questions concerning its disastrous maiden voyage in 1912.
40) Rivers of gold
Author
Series
Yukon quest volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Book 3 of Yukon Quest historical fiction series set in Alaska in the late 1800s. Miranda Colton, presumed dead, finds herself under the care of a native Alaskan and a studious botanist from England, Teddy Davenport. Miranda only longs to find her friends and and continue north. She fears that her chances are diminishing with each passing day. Teddy is deeply committed to his research of the unique landscape of the rugged Alaskan frontier. But despite...
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