Weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen!

Arr, September 19th be Talk Like a Pirate Day.  Arr ye interested in readin' about some Seadogs and Buccaneers?  Try out some of these great books at the Goldstein Library, where ye don't hafta Hornswaggle - books check out fer free at libraries!



The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen
--Two women who sailed with Calico Jack Rackham and his pirates in the early 1700s do their best to defend their ship while the men on board are busy drinking.

Captain Butcher's Body by Scott Corbett
--Two boys confront the ghost of a long-dead pirate on an island off the coast of New England.

Pirates! The True and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, Female Pirates. by Celia Rees
--In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.


Pirate Royal by John and Patricia Beatty
--After being unjustly accused of theft, imprisoned, and sold as a bondservant, a seventeenth-century English youth joins a band of pirates.  Several years later he gains both pardon and praise from the King of England for his service to Henry Morgan, the famous buccaneer.

Enjoy Talk Like a Pirate Day, and enjoy a good read!