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Mermaid and Pirate

Tracey Baptiste - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

A mermaid and a pirate build a friendship through kindness, empathy, and shared adventure in this heartwarming picture book by New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste, with bright, bold illustrations by Leisl Adams. Glub glub ... Aargh... Mermaid and Pirate cannot understand...
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Backbeard: Pirate for Hire

Matthew McElligott - Walker Childrens
Format: Hardcover

Backbeard may have a new suit, but he is still one of the orneriest, smelliest, and hairiest pirates ever to sail the high seas. And his crew still likes to smash and steal things -- they just prefer to do it in style. Unfortunately, certain members of the Pirate Council dont think he looks...
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Charlotte Jane Battles Bedtime

Myra Wolfe - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

If only bedtime could walk the plank! Charlotte Jane the Hearty gets all the juice out of her days with pirate-girl pizzazz! She loves swashbuckling sessions, treasure hunts, and Fantastic Feats of Daring - all of which prove she has formidable oomph. There's absolutely no room...
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Babajoon's Treasure

Farnaz Esnaashari - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From the creator of Nickelodeon's hit series Shimmer and Shine comes a sweet and imaginative picture book about a little girl who spends the day with her grandfather and learns more about who he is.. Every summer, Miriam spends a week at her Babajoon and Mamanjoon's house. It's...
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Louise, The Adventures of a Chicken

Kate DiCamillo - Joanna Cotler Books
Format: Book

She longed for adventure. So she left her home and ventured out into the wide world.The pleasures and perils she met proved plentiful: marauding pirates on the majestic seas, a ferocious lion under the bright lights of the big top, a mysterious stranger in an exotic and bustling bazaar.Yet...
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Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates

Tim J. Myers - West Margin Press
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by the 1863 Egg War and the mad rush for murre eggs on the Farallon Islands near San Francisco, Yao Bai and the Egg Pirates is a high-seas adventure story celebrating the courage and history of Chinese immigrants in America through a fascinating yet little-known event during the California...
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Swashby and the Sea

Beth Ferry - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling author Beth Ferry and Caldecott Honor winner Juana Martinez-Neal comes a sweet-and-salty friendship story perfect for pirate-lovers and fans of The Night Gardener. Captain Swashby loves the sea, his oldest friend. And he loves his life by the sea just as it is: salty...
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Pirate Boy

Eve Bunting - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover

After reading his favoritebook about a pirate boy, Danny wonders what wouldhappen if he sailed away ona pirate ship. This reassuringpicture book is byaward-winning author Eve Bunting.
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The Pirate of Kindergarten

George Ella Lyon - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Doubles are good for lots of things - double scoops of ice cream, double features at the movies. But double vision is NOT a good kind of double. In fact, it can make kindergarten kind of hard. Ginny sees double chairs at reading circle and double words in her books. She knows that only...
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We're Going on a Treasure Hunt

Kelly DiPucchio - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Ahoy there! Join this crew of pirates on a high-seas quest for treasure. These salty dogs are off to fetch some gold, and no whale, skeleton, or thunderstorm can stand in their way. But our brave buccaneers best beware -- there may be even more trouble ahead! With Kelly DiPucchio's...
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Give Me Back My Bones!

Kim Norman - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

A silly pirate skeleton seeks to put its bones back together in this rhyming romp beneath the waves.Cast a spyglass 'round herewhile breakers curl and pound here.There's treasure to be found here - I feel it in my bones!A stormy night at sea has uncovered some...
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The Way To Treasure Island

Lizzy Stewart - Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Format: Hardcover

Matilda and her dad are very different. Matilda is fast and Dad is slow. Matilda is tidy and Dad is messy, and Matilda is quiet and Dad is very, very loud. They're off to find treasure, but Dad keeps getting distracted. Soon, they're lost and Matilda is getting madder and madder...
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Pirates Go to School

Corinne Demas - Orchard Books
Format: Hardcover

A funny rhyming story about the silly things pirates do when they go to school.Pirates and their parrots go to school, and it's time to hang up their swords and have fun. They learn reading and math, and they bring pirate treasure for show-and-tell. For pirates, going to school is as much...
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Pirates vs. Cowboys

Aaron Reynolds - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book

It is a sad and sorry day when Burnt Beard the Pirate and his scurvy crew swagger into Old Cheyenne looking to bury their treasure. Black Bob McKraw - terror of the Wild West - and his posse don't take too kindly to pirates invading their town. And to add insult to injury, the pirates and cowboys...
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Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC

June Sobel - Sandpiper
Format: Paperback

The captain of this brave and bumbling pirate crew has ordered them to capture the entire alphabet--and they'll walk the plank if they're missing a single letter Now these swashbuckling mateys are embarking on an alphabet adventure unlike any other, and they won't (ahem, "can't")...
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Pirate Stew

Neil Gaiman - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Long John has a whole crew of wild pirates in tow, andfor one boy and his sisterhe's about to transform a perfectly ordinary evening into a riotous adventure beneath a pirate moon. It's time to make some PIRATE STEW. Marvelously silly and gloriously entertaining, this tale of pirates,...
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Pirate Chicken: All Hens on Deck

Brian Yanish - Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Format: Hardcover

A hilarious picture book about pirate chickens and their feared and feathered leader Redfoot!Lily is no ordinary chicken. She dreams of a life off the farm where she can put her grand plans into action.Her wish is granted when pirates recruit her and her fellow chickens and whisk them away...
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