This year’s summer reading games are sending kids on a seafaring adventure, and these books are a perfect way to start your journey! Here are some of our favourite adventures at sea, including picture books, chapter books, nonfiction, and graphic novels.
Little Boat is a beautifully-illustrated picture book about a little boat who braves storms, sea monsters, and other dangers to explore the ocean with his sea creature friends.
Check out The Pirates Are Coming! for a funny take on “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Tom keeps accidentally sounding the alarm when he spots boats that turn out not to be pirate ships. What will happen when the pirates really come?
Shark Lady is a picture book biography about Eugenie Clark, a scientist who showed the world that sharks are beautiful and smart animals, not just scary monsters. Enjoy her inspiring story, and learn some cool shark facts.
In the early chapter book series Coral Keepers, Princess Finn and her friends are mermaids with magical powers, training to become Coral Keepers who protect the Queendom of Anjeea. In the first adventure, she must find the magical Silver Shell to defeat the evil magician Rozaro.
Race to the Bottom of the Sea is an action-packed adventure about Fidelia, a young marine scientist and inventor who is kidnapped by pirates. An exciting tale with surprising twists, lost treasure, battles at sea, and shark encounters.
In The Last Mapmaker, Sai is hiding her past as the daughter of a conman. She secretly becomes a mapmaker’s apprentice and joins a journey to explore the southern seas, possibly heading to the Sunderlands, where dragons might live. Sai learns that she's not the only one keeping secrets in this Thai-inspired fantasy adventure.
In Four Points, twins Alex and Cleo are on their own after their father goes missing. All they have left from him is a knife and compass, but when pirates come after them to steal the items, the twins realize that they are more than they appear.
In the graphic novel Sea Legs, Janey’s family lives on a houseboat. She gets to travel and see amazing things out on the ocean. But it can also be lonely, and friendships are hard when you’re never in one place for long.
From Shore to Ocean Floor tells the story of how humans have explored and travelled the oceans—from canoes to submarines to deep-sea diving. Learn about big discoveries and real-life adventures through cool illustrations, timelines, maps, and comic strips.
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