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10 best books like Pirates! (Celia Rees): Girl in Blue, Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber, To Catch a Pirate, Girl in a Cage, At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, Powder Monkey, The Moon Riders, A Coalition of Lions, The Ransom of Mercy Carter, Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas

Girl in Blue
AuthorAnn Rinaldi
ISBN0439676460
From acclaimed QUILT TRILOGY author Ann Rinaldi comes another gripping historical adventure. Here, a courageous girl disguises herself as a boy and fights in the Civil War.

The year is 1861. When spirited teenager Sarah Louisa learns that she is to be married off to her despicable neighbor,...
Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber
AuthorL.A. Meyer
ISBN0152058737
It makes me sad that they don't write many pirate novels for adults. This series is listed as YA, and the themes within are suitable for that category, but the main character is just so obnoxiously childish that I think I've outgrown her.

The author does his research well in terms of nautical technicalities...
To Catch a Pirate
AuthorJade Parker
ISBN0439026946
Once caught, it’s harder still to let a pirate go


When Annalisa Townsend’s ship is set upon by pirates in search of her father’s treasure, one of the crew, James Sterling, discovers her in the hold. When he moves to take her necklace, she begs him not to, as it is all she has left of her...
Girl in a Cage
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0142401323
When her father, Robert the Bruce, becomes King of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce becomes a princess. But Edward Longshanks, the ruthless King of England, has set his sights on Robert and his family. Marjorie is captured and imprisoned in a wooden cage in the center of a town square, exposed to wind, rain,...
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum
AuthorMary Hooper
ISBN1582348499
It is 1665 and Hannah is full of excitement at the prospect of her first trip to London. She is going to help her sister, Sarah, in her candy shop, 'The Sugared Plum'. But Hannah does not get the welcoming reception she expected from her sister, because the Plague is taking hold of London. However, Hannah...
Powder Monkey
AuthorPaul Dowswell
ISBN1582347484
Thirteen-year-old Sam Witchall has always dreamed of being a sailor, but he never realized how dangerous and gruesome life at sea could be until he is pressed into service aboard HMS Miranda. Beginning his naval career as a "powder monkey"--assisting the gun crews on the warship--Sam learns the ropes...
The Moon Riders
AuthorTheresa Tomlinson
ISBN0060847360
Myrina has prepared for thirteen years to join the Moon Riders—learning the sacred dances, the art of using a weapon, and listening to her mother and grandmother's tales of their time spent with the Moon-maidens. Finally, the day arrives when she will leave her family and devote herself to the Old...
A Coalition of Lions
AuthorElizabeth E. Wein
ISBN0142401293
After the death of virtually all of her family in the battle of Camlan, Goewin, Princess of Britain, daughter of the High King Artos, makes a desperate journey to African Aksum, to meet with Constantine, the British ambassador and her fiance. But Aksum is undergoing political turmoil, and Goewin's...
The Ransom of Mercy Carter
AuthorCaroline B. Cooney
ISBN0440227755
Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together...
Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas
AuthorTanith Lee
ISBN0525473246
Artemesia is the daughter of a pirate queen, and she's sick of practicing deportment at the Angels Academy for Young Maidens. Escaping from the school, she hunts up her mother's crew and breezily commands them out to sea in a leaky boat. Unfortunately, Art's memories of her early life may not be accurate-her...
Star-Crossed
AuthorLinda Collison
ISBN0375833633
Patricia Kelley has been raised a proper British lady--but she's become a stowaway. Her father is dead, and her future in peril. To claim the estate that is rightfully hers, she must travel across the seas to Barbados, hidden in the belly of merchant ship.

It is a daring escapade, and the plan...
The Wreckers
AuthorIain Lawrence
ISBN0440415454
There was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage; dead sailors'...
The Ring of the Slave Prince
AuthorBjarne Reuter
ISBN0525471464
From one of Denmark's foremost writers, here is his most impressive book to date-a roguishly fantastic adventure story of piracy, slave owners, witch burning, shipwrecks, desert islands, and larger-than-life characters-the largest of which is fourteen-year-old Tom O'Connor, a poor, adventurous,...
Boston Jane: An Adventure
AuthorJennifer L. Holm
ISBN0064408493
Sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has ventured to the unknown wilds of the Northwest to wed her childhood idol, William Baldt. But her impeccable training at Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy in Philadelphia is hardly preparation for the colorful characters and crude life that await her in Washington...
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