"Mabel Jones finds herself aboard the Feroshus Maggot--a ship crewed by the strangest bunch of pirates you'd (never) want to meet. She then has to find pieces of an X-shaped puzzle that in her hands could be her ticket home, but in the hands of Captain Split, they'd give him the power to assemble a pirate militia to take over London!"-- Provided by publisher. "Mabel Jones finds herself aboard the Feroshus Maggot--a ship crewed by the strangest bunch...

Seventeen-year-old Amy, her father, and her stepmother becomes hostages when Somalian pirates seize their yacht, but although she builds a bond with one of her captors it becomes brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things.

Twelve-year-old Nick McIver tries to help his father and sister send vital information to England about imminent Nazi invasion, until he finds himself transported through time to help his ancestor stop a mutinous captain who is aiding the French fleet and endangering British sailors.

Nick McIver travels to both 1940s England, where Nazis have invaded his homeland, and to America during the Revolution, where Nick must face Captain Billy Blood, who has kidnapped his sister in exchange for Nick's time machine.

Now in possession of the all-powerful Sword of Cortés, Jack Sparrow must now deal with the ghost of the sword's first master, learn to command the power of the Sword and remove himself and his mates from the snowy Caribbean island on which they are stranded.

Since the golden age of pirates, the Pirate Lords have rueld the Seven Seas. Lord Beckett of the East India Trading Company is on a mission to change that balance of power. The pirates' only hope lies in the notorious Captian Jack Sparrow.

Jack Sparrow's first mate Arabella discovers that her mother, far from being long-dead, is captain of the pirate ship Fleur de la Mort and sailing with some formidable mates, including Left-Foot Louis. Jack and crew are forced aboard the Fleur and quickly learn they may not be able to leave.

Back in New Orleans in search of the Barnacle's first mate, Arabella, Jack Sparrow and his crew find a silver city and run afoul of the notorious Madame Minuit and her pirate allies.

Twelve-year-old Christopher "Kitto" Wheale, a clubfooted boy seemingly doomed to follow in the boring footsteps of his father as a cooper in seventeenth-century England, finds himself on a dangerous seafaring adventure with his newly discovered uncle, the infamous pirate William Quick.

Timothy Freshwater--a smart-aleck boy who just got expelled from the last school in the city--learns that the Chinese mail clerk at his father's office is really an enslaved dragon who, with Timothy's help, must scale the Dragon's Gate in order to resume his true form.