Changes in Latitudes

2008-06-30 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Will Hobbs
Release : 2008-06-30
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Changes in Latitudes written by Will Hobbs. This book was released on 2008-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trouble In Paradise Sixteen-year-old Travis is looking for a good time. A vacation in Mexico with his mother, sister, and little brother might cramp his style, but he's willing to take that risk for a chance to cruise the beaches. Travis soon discovers that even with his headphones and shades, he can't completely cut himself off from his family's problems. He begins to understand why his father didn't come with them: His mother is contemplating a divorce. Meanwhile his younger brother, Teddy, becomes increasingly obsessed with protecting some endangered sea turtles near the resort. In spite of himself, Travis is drawn into Teddy's efforts to save the turtles. But it takes a devastating tragedy beyond his imagining to shake Travis out of his cynicism -- a tragedy that will change his family forever.

Changes in Latitudes

2017-07-25 Young Adult Fiction

Author : Jen Malone
Release : 2017-07-25
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 184/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Changes in Latitudes written by Jen Malone. This book was released on 2017-07-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jen Malone, author of teen novels Wanderlost and Map to the Stars, will take readers to the high seas—literally—in this contemporary YA novel about a girl facing the dissolution of her parents’ marriage, a new romance, and self-discovery while sailing down the Pacific coast. After concluding that her is to blame for her parents’ recent divorce, Cassandra McClure is hoping to stay as far away from her as possible. With a summer of freedom right around the corner, it shouldn’t be too hard. But when a forty-foot sailboat appears in her driveway and her mom announces that Cassie and her brother Drew will be accompanying her on a four-month sailing trip down to Mexico, Cassie’s plans for the summer go, quite literally, overboard. Once the three set sail, tensions quickly rise. So meeting Jonah—a gorgeous, whip-smart deckhand—is an unexpected bright spot on an otherwise dim horizon. Though she tries to keep him at a distance—considering the upheaval of her home life—their chemistry is impossible to ignore, and Cassie soon finds herself questioning everything: Should she go for it with Jonah? Can she forgive her mom? Will home ever feel the same? With life’s unpredictable tides working against her, Cassie must decide whether to swim against them, or dive right in.

Blue Latitudes

2003-08-01 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Tony Horwitz
Release : 2003-08-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 571/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Blue Latitudes written by Tony Horwitz. This book was released on 2003-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century were the last great voyages of discovery. His ships sailed 150,000 miles, from the Artic to the Antarctic, from Tasmania to Oregon, from Easter Island to Siberia. When Cook set off for the Pacific in 1768, a third of the globe remained blank. By the time he died in Hawaii in 1779, the map of the world was substantially complete. Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook's voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice. He also relives Cook's adventures by following in the captain's wake to places such as Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef to discover Cook's embattled legacy in the present day. Signing on as a working crewman aboard a replica of Cook's vessel, Horwitz experiences the thrill and terror of sailing a tall ship. He also explores Cook the man: an impoverished farmboy who broke through the barriers of his class and time to become the greatest navigator in British history. By turns harrowing and hilarious, insightful and entertaining, BLUE LATITUDES brings to life a man whose voyages helped create the 'global village' we know today.

Changes in Latitude

1990 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Joana McIntyre Varawa
Release : 1990
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 193/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Changes in Latitude written by Joana McIntyre Varawa. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of one woman's journey of self-discovery in the Fijian Islands--where she finds romance and adventure, splendor and hardship. "This is a true story--a mind-boggling one--and an unforgettable book".--Cosmopolitan.

Latitudes of Melt

2011-04-20 Fiction

Author : Joan Clark
Release : 2011-04-20
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 358/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Latitudes of Melt written by Joan Clark. This book was released on 2011-04-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bountiful, magical novel opens with the discovery by two fishermen of a baby floating in a cradle on an ice pan in the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. To the small fishing community into which the foundling is adopted, Aurora, as they name her – with her shock of white hair, one blue eye and one brown – is clearly enchanted. But it is not until Aurora is herself an old woman that she learns the heart-wrenching story behind her miraculous survival on the ice.

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