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A sailing trip to the Caribbean might sound great, but sixteen-year-old Rachel can't stand being trapped on a small boat with her family. She misses her best friend and feels guilty about leaving her older sister Emma, who lives in a group home. Her father is driving her crazy with his schedules and rules, her brother is miserable, and there is never anyone her own age around. Worst of all, there is nowhere to go when her parents fight. While their...
3) Dinosailors
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Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
2003
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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After spending time sailing, some seasick dinosaurs decide they have had enough of the high seas.
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Flat Stanley volume 6
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After Stanley Lambchop goes flat once again, he uses his flatness to help win a sailboat race and to rescue a classmate from a collapsed building.
5) Ghosting
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Jack, a hotshot neurosurgeon, is at the peak of his career--and his family's showing the strain. Jack's solution to all their problems is a family cruise to Bermuda aboard a luxurious new sailboat. He's never sailed on the open sea before--and they begin to fear for their safety. How much would each one be willing to sacrifice in order to buy the others a chance to survive?
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Pub. Date
2008
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"The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
12) Black swan
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Permanent Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
304 p. ; 23 cm.
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A sudden storm drives Sam, Amanda, and their sailboat into harbor at Fishers Island. The owner of the Black Swan, a small hotel, reluctantly gives them lodging. When a fellow lodger dies in circumstances that suggest a killer in their midst, Sam must ferret out the corporate secrets behind the murder.
14) The Wanderer
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2000
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305 p. ; 22 cm.
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Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
15) Ocean meets sky
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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"A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's stories"--
17) In harm's way
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Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert are determined to save their school from destruction. But just when it seems they?ve finally gotten the upper hand over that awful Janitor Lyman, they?re caught completely off guard by his next move: Lyman has called in reinforcements, and suddenly Benjamin, Jill, and Robert find themselves dodging not one evil janitor, but two.
18) Into the wind
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"A character-driven novel about the unlikely friendship between a 10-year-old boy and an elderly woman. The old woman badgers the boy into taking her sailing, but when the weather turns bad, it becomes a wild sail. It becomes the last trip before she goesinto the hospital where she dies: but not before the two of them share memories of their last sail together. Hazel helps build the boy's confidence during a tough time in his home life. Both moving...
19) Sea wife
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2020.
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Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her anemic dissertation when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. The couple are novice sailors, but Michael persuades Juliet to say yes. With their two kids--Sybil, age seven, and George, age two, Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four-foot sailboat awaits them--a boat that Michael has christened the Juliet. The initial result is transformative:...
20) The crossing
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
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316 pages ; 21 cm
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Tim, an affable young man with modest ambition, is infatuated with Maud the moment they meet in hte University Sailing Club. A career scientist who betrays little of herself, Maud is found by some to be enchanting, by others distant. There is little to suggest that she has any need of anyone. Tim ties his life to hers, but slowly the marriage unravels as she quietly refuses to conform to the conventional demands of wife and mother. A sudden tragedy...
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