Pines and Plains Libraries

This swashbuckling puzzle book is packed with things to find and count. Search pirate ports, stormy seas, and sunken ships to see if you can spot all the hidden treasure. Just look out for the sea monsters!

"Step back in time, and discover the lives pirates led through labeled graphics, fun facts, and age-appropriate text that separates fact from fiction while keeping readers interested and engaged"--

Learn about faraway, interesting places, meet new people, eat their food, learn the language, and get rich by becoming a pirate. Are you up for the job?

Presented as a time-travel journal into the past which uses facts and excerpts from fiction to examine pirates throughout history, discussing their tactics, weapons, the treasures they stole, the locations around the world that they targeted, and the types of ships they used.

Discusses when and where pirates typically lived and what their activities were.

"A countdown of five of the most legendary pirates provides thrills as readers explore the lives, weapons, and battle tactics of these renegade fighters"--

The fictional journal of pirate hunter William Lubber chronicles his around-the-world voyage in search of the vicious and intemperate female pirate Arabella Drummond in 1723.

Twelve-year-old Olivia is psychic! With her friend Sebastian's help, she creates a blog called Clairvoyant Claire on which she posts her predictions. But when Olivia posts her vision that a pirate treasure will be stolen, people do not believe her. But with a dramatic arrest her prediction turns out to be true.

This book describes the tools and equipment pirates used for daily life at sea, as well as the weapons they used for their deadly raids on merchant ships.

Relates the history of sea robbers who plundered ships' cargoes since ancient times, who flourished in the New World, and who remain active today, mainly in the South China Seas.