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IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
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In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. The next three months...
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"Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial."--Provided by publisher.
3) Moby Dick
Pub. Date
2015
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A whaler chases after a white whale and meets disaster. A tale of obsession.
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[2018]
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Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fianc� Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tamis hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldnt anticipate that less than two weeks into their voyage, they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. They found themselves battling pounding rain, waves...
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[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
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Chronicles the worst disaster in U.S. naval history, describing heroism in the face of persistant shark attacks and hypothermia after the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in the South Pacific in the final days of World War II
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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Martel's novel tells the story of Pi--short for Piscine--an unusual boy raised in a zoo in India. Pi's father decides to move the family to live in Canada and sell the animals to the great zoos of America. The ship taking them across the Pacific sinks and Pi finds himself the sole human survivor on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan, a zebra with a broken leg and Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. Life of Pi brings together many themes including...
8) Adrift
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2018.
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Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
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c2001
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"On July 30, 1945, four days after delivering components for the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. The U.S. Navy's blunders, delayed response, and subsequent cover-up is arguably the most appalling scandal of World War II. Of the 1,199 men on board, 883 perished." "Culled from previously unavailable files, this chilling story examines how and why the U.S. Navy left the crew...
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2000.
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Originally published in 1958, "Abandon Ship!" was the first book to describe how the survivors of the "U.S.S. Indianapolis" sinking watched their shipmates fall prey to shark attacks, dehydration and death, and the first to question why the captain, Charles McVay, was court martialed.
13) Return to Midway
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[1999]
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Provides an account of the 1942 battle of Midway and the high-tech hunt for the lost ships fifty-six years later
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2015
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En 1819, el barco Essex zarpó del puerto de Nantucket, en la costa este de Estados Unidos, con el objetivo de cazar ballenas durante dos años. Quince meses después, mientras navegaba en pleno Pacífico, el barco fue atacado por una ballena gigante, y la tripulación se vio obligada a refugiarse en tres botes salvavidas. Fue entonces cuando empezó la tragedia: por temor a las tribus caníbales que se creía que poblaban las islas del Pacífico,...
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2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
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A young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias' New York Times bestseller In Harm's Way--a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history. On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained undetected by the navy for nearly four...
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