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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
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Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
3) The reef
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Amateur treasure hunters Tate Beaumont and her father Raymond team up with professional deep-sea divers Matthew Lassiter and his Uncle Buck in an attempt to find the legendary jeweled amulet known as Angelique's Curse which lies somewhere on the bottom of the Caribbean.
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Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to hang for treating a wounded rebel. Instead of death, he is sent to Barbados as a slave. When the Spanish attack the port city of Bridgetown, he and his fellow slaves capture the Spanish ship and set out to sea, where he becomes the notorious pirate, Captain Blood.
5) Bodily harm
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A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel,Bodily Harmis the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood'sBodily Harmis ultimately an exploration of the lust for power, both...
6) Hawke
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Lord Alexander Hawke is a direct descendant of the legendary English pirate Blackhawke and highly skilled in the cutthroat's deadly ways himself. While still a boy, on a voyage to the Caribbean, Alex Hawke witnesses an act of unspeakable horror. Hidden in a secret compartment on his father's yacht, Alex sees his parents brutally murdered by three modern-day pirates. It is an event that will haunt him for the remainder of his life. Now, fully grown...
7) Fatal tide
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A high-stakes treasure hunt. - A twisted trail of murder.- A secret one woman may die to discover. - Number one New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen last electrified readers with Dead Aim and No One to Trust. Now she offers a new pulse-pounding thriller that takes suspense writing to an all-new level: deep below the surface, where a ruthless killer strikes without warning, without mercy-and with the deadliest intent. Melis Nemid is treading...
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The dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.
10) A single rose
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Shaye Burke struggles to maintain self-control while on a two-week hunt for buried treasure in the Caribbean with Samson and Noah VanBaar, but she ends up finding something more valuable than gold in Noah.
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The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
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Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven't exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her neighbors treat her with mistrust. When local children begin to go missing, snatched from the beach and vanishing into wells, suspicious eyes turn to Corinne. To rescue the missing children and clear her own name, Corinne goes deep into the ocean to find Mama...
13) The gun ketch
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 5
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It's 1786 and Alan Lewrie has his own ship at last, the Alacrity. Small but deadly, the Alacrity prowls the waters of the Caribbean, protecting British merchants from pirates. But Lewrie is still the same old rakehell he always was. Scandal sets tongues wagging in the Bahamas as the young captain thumbs his nose at propriety and makes a few well-planned conquests on land before sailing off to take on Calico Jack Finney, the boldest
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Stone Barrington novels volume 3
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Attorney Stone Barrington's life takes an unexpected turn when he travels to a Caribbean island for a yachting vacation only to become involved in the murder trial of Allison Manning, a woman who set sail from the other side of the Atlantic in the company of her husband and arrived in St. Marks without him.
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It is two years since Thomas Paine Kydd was spirited away in the night to serve his country aboard the old line-of-battle ship "Duke William." Now, together with his high-born friend Nicholas Renzi and other crew members from the ill-fated Artemis, Tom is a shipwrecked sailor back in the land of his birth.
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Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 14
Miss Marple mystery volume 14
Jane Marple murder mystery volume 14
Miss Marple mystery volume 10
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Miss Marple mystery volume 14
Jane Marple murder mystery volume 14
Miss Marple mystery volume 10
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
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Miss Marple, enjoying a well-earned rest on the Caribbean Island of St. Honore, far from her busy life in the village of St. Mary Mead, meets Major Palgrave. He tells her the strange story of a suspected double murderer. Just as Major Palgrave is about to show the murderer's picture to her, he looks over her shoulder, appears startled, and changes the subject. The next morning, a servant finds him dead in his room. As rumors begin to circulate, Miss...
18) Second wind
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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BBC meteorologist Perry Stuart finds his life in danger after the plane he is riding in on an adventure into the eye of a Class V hurricane is destroyed, stranding him on Trox Island where he discovers a notebook that contains very sensitive information.
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Berenson schemes volume 01
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
620L
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Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
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Tully Mars finds himself regretting a decision to help find the missing lens belonging to the Cayo Loco lighthouse, in a madcap, tequila-inspired adventure featuring such characters as Indian shaman Ix-Nay, centenarian Cleopatra Highbourne, and boatman Captain Kirk. The beloved traveler/troubadour offers up a plate of stories from his world of seaplanes, tropical isles, and wayward adventures. A Salty Piece of Land takes readers to a warm beach and...
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