When pirate mommy announces bath time, it is yo ho ho and to the bath we go for her little pirates.

Describes the ships, social conditions, rules, and behavior of pirates and includes stories from the lives of such famous pirates as Blackbeard, Samuel Bellamy, and the female pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny.

Uncle Willy uses a clever disguise to save his boat from a gang of pirates and make Busytown Bay safe again.

Hal and the Herons celebrate their victory in the Brotherband competition only to be wrongly blamed for the theft of a sacred artifact that they must risk their lives to reclaim.

Who can outsmart a pack of pirates and the murderous Long John Silver? Who is fearless enough to single-handedly board a ship and steal it back? Who else but the most daring lad of all -- young Jim Hawkins! Get ready for excitement and terror -- from the moment Jim finds a treasure map to the final hunt for buried gold.

With their honor restored, Hal and his fellow Herons leave Skandia again on a new mission--to track down and stop Hal's nemesis, Tursgud, a bullying youth-turned vicious pirate and slave trader.

Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.

When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors and held them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute payments far beyond what the new country could afford. Unfortunately, he found it impossible to negotiate with people who believed...