Format:
Book
Title:
Pirates : truth and rumors / by Sean Stewart Price.
Author:
Price, Sean.
Call Number:
j910.45 Price
Publisher, Date:
Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2011.
Description:
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Labels common stories about pirates as fact or fiction and teaches readers how to tell the difference between truth and rumors"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Edge books. Truth and rumors
Subjects:
Pirates -- Juvenile literature.
Contents:
Pirates : what's the real story -- Did pirates really say "arrr?" -- Were pirates active only in the 1600s and 1700s? -- Did all pirates fly the same pirate flag? -- Did pirates make captives walk the plank? -- Did pirates maroon people? -- Did pirates always fight big battles to capture loot? -- Was Blackbeard really hard to kill? -- Did women ever become pirates? -- Did pirates have eye patches, hooks, and peg legs? -- Did pirates bury their treasure? -- Were pirates afraid of "Davy Jones' Locker"? -- Fact or fiction : how to tell the difference.
ISBN:
9781429647465 (library binding)
1429647469 (library binding)