Books with title Elliot's Shipwreck

Gail gets a mysterious gift from her great aunt for her eighteenth birthday —- a bracelet with faces painted on it that her mother identifies as long ago ancestors who lived on the Oregon Coast. Gail thinks it is so ugly and disturbing (she has nightmares about it) that she tries to throw it away. But the garbage man returns it to her. Suddenly her father gets a transfer to a lighthouse on the same part of the Oregon Coast. But when they try to get to the small town of Mystic Cliffs all the locals balk. One night half the town died in a huge storm at sea. They were all fishermen, and their boats sank. Since then the town has been deserted. This place of ill omen seems to be drawing Gail on, and there is nothing she can do about it. It has caught her in its clutches.

6 Kids. 1 Shipwreck. Luke, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla and Ian. They didn't want to be on the boat in the first place. They didn't want to be stuck at sea with a bunch of strangers. But when you're in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there's no easy way out. And when a terrifying storm hits, there's no way to fully prepare. It's all about survival. Gordan Korman is the author of more than thirty-five books for children and young adults, including most recently The Chicken Doesn't Skate, the Slapshots series, and Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. He lives in Long Island with his wife and son. Although he has never been stranded on a desert island, he did a lot of research to write this, his first adventure novel. Holter Graham has narrated numerous audiobooks and is a veteran actor of stage, television and film. His screen credits include Fly Away Home, Maximum Overdrive and Hairspray. He has also appeared on Law and Order and New York Undercover.

Travel to the depths of the ocean to explore the history of many an ill-fated journey, including a Spanish Galleon, the Mary Rose, and the Titanic. From antiquity to the modern age, this engrossing guide looks at the causes of shipwrecks, rescue technology, the exploration of shipwrecks, and restoration attempts. With fascinating facts about the bounties these underwater graves may hold, Shipwreck is a treasure-trove of information for aspiring, as well as armchair, underwater archaeologists.