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Blackbeard Booklist

 

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Related Reading: Pirates

Fiction

  • Scurvy Dogs: Rags to Riches
    Author: Boyd, Andrew & Ryan Yount
    Publisher: AIT Planet $ 12.95 ISBN: 1932051279 Date: 2005
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    Pirates of the past...today! The Scurvy Dogs search for jobs, love, and adventure - with disastrous results! This volume collects all five issues of the critically-acclaimed, independent humor, comic book sensation. But that's not all! It's chock-full of bonuses - including rare, behind-the-scenes materials, a character sketchbook, creator interviews, pin-up gallery, and an original commentary on all five issues written exlusively for this volume by creators Andrew Boyd and Ryan Yount. A must-have for the deranged; or for collectors of oddball comedy. - Publishers Marketing.
    Suggested Reading: Graphic Novels
    Updated 10.24.05
  • A Calculus of Angels
    Author: Keyes, J. Gregory
    Publisher: Del Rey $ 14 ISBN: 0345406079 Date: 1999
    The uncanny adventures of Newton and Franklin continue as sorcery wreaks havoc across eighteenth-century Europe--demolishing London with a hurtling comet, uniting Peter the Great of Russia with Adrienne and beckoning a host of colonial America's famous figures across the ocean on a most extraordinary expedition.
    Updated 10.24.05
  • On Stranger Tides
    Author: Powers, Tim
    Publisher: Ace $ 16.95 ISBN: 0441626831 Date: 1987
    Jack Shandy, bookkeeper and puppeteer, is the least likely man to get mixed up with pirates. Yet, on his way to seek revenge against his rich uncle for cheating his now-dead father of an inheritance, he is kidnapped by zombie pirates and taken into adventures, misadventures and lands filled with voodoo.
    Updated 10.24.05

    • For Kids

  • Th Not-So-Jolly Roger
    Author: Scieszka, Jon & Lane Smith (ilt)
    Publisher: Viking $ 14.95 ISBN: 0670837547 Date: 1991
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    Joe, Fred, and Sam are really up a tree this time. Literally. Not only has Joe's Book set them down in a coconut tree, but the tree's surrounded by pirates! Their choices: join Blackbeard's crew, walk the plank, or become coconut stew! What can a time traveler say but, "Yo ho ho and a bottle of ginger ale"?
    Grades: 4-7 Category: Fiction | Action & Adventure
  • Blackbeard's Ghost
    Author: Stahl, Ben
    Publisher: Houghton $ 7.95 ISBN: 0395701151 Date: 1980