September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Aarrgghh, mateys!  It be Talk Like a Pirate Day!  Practice your yo-ho-hos and scurvy knaves.  And pick up one of these new pirate tales for inspiration.  If ye don't, ye'll walk the plank.

Captain Cat and the Pirate Lunch by Emma J. Virján
Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas by Leigh Lewis
Pirates: True Stories of Seafaring Rogues by Anne Rooney
The Second One to Sail the Globe: Sir Francis Drake by Farren Phillips

COMING SOON!
Magic Tree House: The Graphic Novel: Pirates Past Noon by Mary Pope Osborne, adapted by Jenny Laird, illustrated by Kelly Matthews & Nichole Matthews
(09/27/22)
The #1 bestselling chapter book series is now a graphic novel!  Captured by pirates! When Jack and Annie are whisked away in the magic tree house, they arrive on a beautiful beach. It’s paradise! That is, until the pirates arrive.  The dreaded Cap’n Bones is looking for buried treasure. He thinks Jack and Annie know where it is. And he’s not letting them out of his sight until they find it! 

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