Sea queens : women pirates around the world / Jane Yolen ; illustrated by Christine Joy Pratt.

Author/creator Yolen, Jane
Other author Pratt, Christine Joy, illustrator.
Format Book
Publication InfoWatertown, MA : Charlesbridge, ©2008.
Descriptionv, 103 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Women pirates--History. --Juvenile literature.
Women pirates--Biography. --Juvenile literature.
Pirates--Juvenile literature.

Portion of title Women pirates around the world
Contents The sea queens -- Artemisia, Admiral-Queen, Persia, 500-480 BC -- Queen Teuta, Illyria, circa 230 BC -- Alfhild, Denmark, ninth century -- Jeanne de Belleville, Brittany, fourteenth century -- Grania O'Malley, Ireland, sixteenth century -- Lady Killigrew, England, late sixteenth century -- Pretty Peg and the Dutch Privateer, Holland, seventeenth century -- Charlotte de Berry, England, mid-seventeenth century -- Anne Bonney and Mary Read, American colonies, early eighteenth century -- Rachel Wall, United States of America, late eighteenth century -- Mary Anne Talbot, England, late eighteenth century -- Madame Ching, China, early nineteenth century.
Abstract Brief biographies of women pirates from around the world.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 95-98) and index.
Interest age level 009-012.
Study program note Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
LCCN 2007026983
ISBN9781580891318 (reinforced for library use)
ISBN1580891314 (reinforced for library use)

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