![]() | Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas by Tanith Lee
Buy used from: $0.01 Trapped in the dreary Angels Academy for Young Maidens by her tyrant father, sixteen-year-old Artemesia Blastside plans her escape. She intends to return to the seafearing life she once led with her mother, a notorious pirate, killed six years before by an untimely cannonblast.
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![]() | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $0.01 As the only passenger and the only female on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle finds herself caught between a murderous captain and his mutinous crew.
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![]() | Pirates! by Celia Rees
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
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![]() | Star-Crossed by Linda Collison
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $0.12 Having been discovered as a stowaway as she tries to reach Barbados in 1760 to claim her father's estate, teenaged English orphan Patricia Kelley struggles to survive by learning to be a ship's doctor and by disguising herself as a man when necessary.
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![]() | Nobody's Prize by Esther Friesner
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.56 Still longing for adventure, Princess Helen of Sparta maintains her disguise as a boy to join her unsuspecting brothers as part of the crew of the Argo, the ship commanded by Prince Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece.
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![]() | Red Sea by Diane Tullson
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 Alone on a hostile sea, far from home, fourteen-year-old Libby fights for survival after her family's sailboat is attacked by pirates.
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![]() | The Pirates of Turtle Rock by Richard W. Jennings
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.01 Sixteen-year-old Jenny Snow of South Florida finds the adventurous life she craves when she joins forces with eighteen-year-old Coop DeVille, a seventh-generation pirate, to seek the lost turtle totem of the Ugiri-Tom.
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![]() | The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed by Heather Vogel Frederick
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use.
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![]() | Escape by Sea by L. S. Lawrence
Buy new: $10.22 / Used from: $0.55 When the city of Carthage falls to the Romans during the Punic Wars, Sara, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a Carthaginian senator, must gather her grief-stricken father and take to the seas, where, with only with a meager cargo to trade, her healing skills, her wits, and her courage, Sara must face a life wildly different from anything she thought possible.
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![]() | Freedom Beyond the Sea by Waldtraut Lewin
Buy used from: $0.01 To escape the Inquisition, Esther Marchadi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a murdered Jewish rabbi, disguises herself as a boy and joins the crew of Christopher Columbus's Santa Maria.
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![]() | Secrets at Sea by Sabre Moore
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $15.43 When seventeen-year-old Zandra learns of the future her foster parents have planned for her, she knows what she must do. Disguised as a boy named Zander Knight, she hires onto the Chaser, a beautiful ship whose mission is not as it seems.
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![]() | Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy (Bloody Jack Adventures) by L. A. Meyer
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $0.79 Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
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![]() | Hannah Pritchard: Pirate of the Revolution (Historical Fiction Adventures) by Bonnie Pryor
Buy new: $25.13 / Used from: $13.34 Disguising herself as a boy in order to work aboard an American privateer ship during the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Hannah Pritchard leaves her farming life behind in order to seek revenge on the British for murdering her beloved family.
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![]() | Pirate Curse (Wave Walkers) by Kai Meyer
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $0.01 In a place similar to the 1706 Caribbean, Jolly, a fourteen-year-old 'polliwog'--a human who can walk on water-- and her friend Munk rely on a mysterious figure known as the Ghost Trader and a band of pirates to help them escape from the evil that is chasing them.
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![]() | The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
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![]() | Pirate Girl by Cornelia Funke
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $2.99 Molly is snatched and held for ransom by Captain Firebeard, an infamous buccaneer, but she remains unfazed, for she knows something Firebeard does not: her mom is Barbarous Bertha, queen of a crew of fierce maidens and matrons.
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![]() | Night Pirates by Peter Harris
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $8.28 Tom is awoken by a band of rough, tough little girl pirates, so what does he do? He joins their ranks! Together they set sail in search of treasure. But what will happen when they meet a crew of rough, tough grown-up pirates?
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![]() | The Pirate Meets the Queen by Matt Faulkner
Buy used from: $0.34 When the son of notorious Irish pirate queen Granny O'Malley is captured by the English, Granny tries to meet with Queen Elizabeth I to negotiate for his freedom.
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![]() | The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $1.69 Two women who sailed with Calico Jack Rackham and his pirates in the early 1700s do their best to defend their ship while the men on board are busy drinking.
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![]() | Charlie Small 2: Perfumed Pirates of Perfidy by Charlie Small
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.29 A continuation of the purported journal of a young adventurer who is now trapped aboard a ship with a crew of frightening female pirates.
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![]() | Polly and the Pirates, Volume 1 (v. 1) by Ted Naifeh
Buy new: $9.56 / Used from: $1.26 Polly is caught between the prim-and-proper boarding school set she's grown-up with and the legendary legacy of the Pirate Queen that she never knew she was a part of! But which is the cruel, cold world and which is the care-free paradise?
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![]() | Who's a Clever Girl? (Yellow Bananas) by Rose Impey
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $0.04 Jake Juggins and his pirate band decide they need a girl on board ship to do the chores while they are busy having daring adventures, but the girl they choose has other ideas.
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![]() | My Mom the Pirate (Funny Families) by French
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $2.78 When Cecil asks his mother, a privateer for Queen Elizabeth, to go to school she insists it be the best one in the world, only it is over four hundred years in the future.
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![]() | The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate (Puffin Picture Story Book) by Margaret Mahy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.95 A man gives up his office job and runs off to sea with his old mother who used to be a pirate.
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![]() | Daring Pirate Women (Biography (A & E)) by Anne Wallace Sharp
Buy new: $20.20 / Used from: $0.94 Profiles pirates throughout history, especially women pirates of Europe, America, and Asia, such as Princess Alvilda, Ingean Ruadh, Grany Imallye, Elizabeth Killigrew, Anne Bonny, and Lai Cho San.
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![]() | Women of the Sea: Ten Pirate Stories (Women Adventurers) by Myra Weatherly
Buy new: $28.95 / Used from: $19.13 Recounts the life stories of ten notorious women pirates, including Grace O'Malley, Anne Bonny, and Cheng I Sao.
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![]() | The Ghost of Grania O'Malley by Michael Morpurgo
Buy used from: $0.01 Ten-year-old Jessie, helped by her American cousin and the ghost of a notorious female pirate, finds the strength to prevail over both a crippling disease and the greedy developers intent on destroying her Irish island home.
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![]() | The Gift of the Pirate Queen by Patricia Reilly Giff
Buy used from: $0.01 Sixth-grader Grace, her mother dead and her only sister ill with diabetes, learns to be brave like the pirate queen Grace O'Malley, whom her Irish cousin says she resembles.
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![]() | Grace The Pirate (Hyperion Chapters) by Kathryn Lasky
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $0.40 Grace O'Malley finds excitement and danger when she defies Irish tradition and goes off to sea with her father, a trader and pirate.
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![]() | Alison's Fierce and Ugly Halloween: Alison's Fierce & Ugly Halloween (Hyperion Chapters) by Marion Bauer
Buy used from: $0.01 Alison is tired of dressing up as 'nice' things, like princesses or fairies, for Halloween. This year she disguises herself as a fierce, terrible pirate, but when nobody is frightened of her, Alison turns fierce and terrible for real.
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![]() | The Pirate Queen by Emily Arnold McCully
Buy used from: $0.01 Recounts the life of the renowned sixteenth-century Irish woman pirate.
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![]() | Jade by Sally Watson
Buy used from: $51.50 Always a rebel against the conventions of the eighteenth century which require her to be a meek and obedient young lady, sixteen-year-old Jade joins the pirate crew that captures the ship she is traveling on.
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![]() | Abigail Takes the Wheel by Avi
Buy used from: $0.19 When the first mate of the freight boat Neptune falls ill, it is up to Abigail, the captain's daughter, to steer the ship up the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York City.
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