Cabin boy Ned Bones is apprenticed to Blackbeard the Pirate and encounters such noted seafarers as Captain Hook, Sinbad, and the Flying Dutchman as Blackbeard searches for buried treasure.
A collection of biographical poems separates the myth from fact about the real-life adventures of the eighteenth century pirate Edward Teach, known through lore as Blackbeard.
The legend of Teach's Light has been handed down by the people of Stumpy Point village in coastal North Carolina for nearly three centuries.
"A thorough, exciting examination of 18th-century pirate life,with wonderful details."--Publishers Weekly"Interesting and exciting . . . a thoroughly enjoyable chronicle of an interesting life and interesting era."--BooklistThe definitive biography of...
Below is the Reading Levels Guide for this book: Grade Levels: 3-6 Accelerated Reader Reading Level: 5.2 Accelerated Reader Points: 4 Accelerated Reader Quiz Number: 74560 Lexile Measure: 780 Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Level: Q ...
Discusses the life of Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, and examines the history of pirating and details daily life aboard a pirate ship.
Author Robert E. Lee has studied virtually every scrap of information available about the pirate and his contemporaries in an attempt to find the real Blackbeard.
The notorious pirate Blackbeard terrorized a vast swath of the Atlantic Ocean in the early modern period, trolling for victims in an area that stretched from the West Indies to what is now the northeast United States.
In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end.
Companion teacher's guide to the Mystery of Blackbeard the Pirate.
Also featured within the pages of The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate are more than 75 photographs and a dozen meticulously researched and crafted maps which support this remarkable story.