Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.
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.
In a novel where the setting moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, an African slave and concubine is determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds.
James Bond, vacationing in Mexico at the home of ex-flying ace Jack Stone, is called to duty when thieves rob Stone's safe and kidnap his children in the midst of a hurricane, forcing James into a perilous chase through the jungle in pursuit of the criminals.
A seed from a mangrove tree floats on the sea until it comes to rest on the shore of a faraway lagoon where, over time, it becomes a mangrove island that shelters many birds and animals, even during a hurricane.
Twins Otis and Cody Carson, their father Hayden, cousin Rae Lee, and family friend Maxim, go to a Caribbean island where Aunt Edith's dream of running an inn is being hampered by ghostly activities and deceitful guests.
Quebrado has been a slave on captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village.
Humorous illustrations and facts combine to provide a portrait of what life was like aboard an English pirate ship plying the Caribbean Sea during the sixteenth century.
