Sail the Seas with Female Sailors (YA/Teen)
Discover the best YA & teen books about female sailors, pirates, and the high seas. From *Bloody Jack* and *The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle* to epic sea adventures by Louis A. Meyer and Celia Rees, this curated list of juvenile fiction celebrates brave girls who sail, fight, and find freedom on the ocean. Perfect for teens who love nautical adventures and strong heroines.
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Bloody Jack
by Louis A. Meyer
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
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Curse of the Blue Tattoo
by Louis A. Meyer
After being forced to leave her ship in 1803, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in Boston, where, instead of learning to be a lady, she roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
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Under the Jolly Roger
by Louis A. Meyer
In 1804, fifteen-year-old Jacky Faber heads back to sea where she gains control of a British warship and eventually becomes a privateer.
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Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West (Bloody Jack Adventures, 5)
by Meyer, L. A.
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My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War
by Meyer, L. A.
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Rapture of the Deep
by Louis A. Meyer
On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission—this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned. Jacky has survived battles on the high seas, the stifling propriety of a Boston finishing school, and even confinement in a dank French prison. But no adventure has quite matched her opportunistic street-urchin desires—until now.
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
A vicious captain, a mutinous crew -- and a young girl caught in the middle Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty. But I was just such a girl, and my story is worth relating even if it did happen years ago. Be warned, however: If strong ideas and action offend you, read no more. Find another companion to share your idle hours. For my part I intend to tell the truth as I lived it.
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Pirates!
by Celia Rees
In 1722, after arriving in Jamaica 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.
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The Wanderer (rack)
by Sharon Creech
The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in. Sophie hears the sea calling, promising adventure as she sets sail for England with her three uncles and two cousins. Sophie's cousin Cody isn't sure he has the strength to prove himself to the crew and to his father. Through Sophie's and Cody's travel logs, we hear stories of the past and the daily challenges of surviving at sea as The Wanderer sails toward its destination -- and its passengers search for their places in the world.
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Kingston by Starlight
by Christopher John Farley
Anne Bonny travels to the West Indies following the death of her mother, masquerading as a man to become a sailor under the command of Calico Jack Rackam, in a fictional portrait of the eighteenth-century, Irish-born woman pirate.