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Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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...
Author
Series
Song of the current volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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
46) Harbor
Author
Publisher
Mulberry Books
Pub. Date
1987, ©1982
Language
English
Description
Presents various kinds of boats which come and go in a busy harbor
47) Boats for Papa
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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
48) Go, boats, go!
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Bigfoot
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Different types of boats are illustrated along with rhyming text." --
49) Whose boat?
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This nonfiction ode to boats features six kinds of workers and their boats--a patrol boat, a tugboat, a car ferry, a lobster boat, a lifeboat, and a fireboat--with important parts properly labeled. The answer to each inquiring refrain lies under a gatefold, engaging the reader in an informative guessing game. With lyrical (and factual!) text by New York Times-bestselling author Toni Buzzeo, and the stylized art of Tom Froese, this sturdy board book...
Author
Publisher
McSweeney's
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"You may have heard of ships. You may have also heard of the sea and the night. But did you realize there's nothing more beautiful than a ship and its lights on the sea at night? In warm and witty prose, this book asks the reader to consider the splendor of glowing lights cast by ships on a shimmering waterway. Meet a trawler, a paddlewheel ferryboat, and icebreaker, and something called a RoRo--all richly illustrated to illuminate the gorgeous explosion...
51) The old boat
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Off a small island, a boy and his grandfather set sail in their beloved fishing boat. They ride the waves, catching wants and wishes and seeing the wonders of the ocean. But soon the boy is sailing the boat himself, drifting further from shore as the waters grow muddied and turbulent. When a storm washes him ashore, he sees home in a new light. He decides to turn the tides of his fortune, cleaning the island's waters and creating a new life with...
53) The dory story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part ode to building something with one's hands in the modern age, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats, and part moving father-daughter story, How to Build a Boat is a bold adventure.
Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings, can seem incomprehensible today. Yet it was the clinker, with its overlapping planks, that afforded us access to the oceans, and its construction has become...
57) The paper boat
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Thao Lam's family came to Canada as refugees during the Vietnam War. When Thao started thinking about how to tell this story, she couldn't stop thinking about ants: small, seemingly insignificant creatures who are able to travel amazingly long distances overwater, work hard, and thrive on almost every continent on the planet. The Paper Boat starts with a story inspired by Thao's mother's life: a young girl watches as a bowl of sugar water is put...
58) 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"--
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Götz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of empire through the chronicle a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. While arguing for the vessel's repatriation, Aly restores attention to the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago"--
60) Wishes
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"--
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