Fiction. Young Adult Novel. What happens when a fearless young explorer teams up with a junkyard genius and builds a submarine? Going to sea with an unusual crew, a strangely intelligent seagull with attitude and a dog that nobody wanted, Alfred unwittingly becomes the "Submarine Outlaw" and discovers that the sea is a busy place. Escaping from the coastguard when he is mistaken for a Russian spy sub, rescuing a family on a sailboat in a storm, and running from thieves who are after the gold coins he has raised from the floor of the Louisburg harbor, Alfred learns that a modern explorer must keep his wits about him as he sails on the high seas, or beneath them. First prize winner in the Atlantic Writers Competition.

Young Adult Fiction. In the seventh volume of the "Submarine Outlaw" series, Alfred takes his homemade submarine into the Southern Ocean to thwart the actions of the Japanese whalers. In Australia, he is mistakenly accused of sabotaging an oil tanker, forcing him to escape to Tasmania. There he meets up with Merwin Hughes, an eccentric environmentalist, and together they travel south. They are followed along the way by a friendly blue whale and her calf, and a bond is established. Soon after, they encounter a tanker on its way to illegally refuel the whalers' ships. When Captain Paul Watson arrives aboard the Sea Shepherd Society's flagship, the Steve Irwin, to stop the whalers, Al must first try to save the mother and calf even as he helps Watson fight off the whalers. Al learns that the war to save the planet is being waged by dedicated individuals, each contributing in his or her own way, and that every action, large or small, matters greatly.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.

The third volume in the Submarine Outlaw series takes Alfred and his homemade submarine up the St. Lawrence River to Montreal in search of the father who abandoned him at birth. An exciting sequel to Submarine Outlaw and Journey to Atlantis.

A group of high school kids, called the Perfect Bondage from Florence Scrooge High School in Alaska go for an excursion to Alaska Woods along with the other classes. But they lose their way as they enter the thick mysterious woods and end up in the island of Lucaris. They meet a new friend there, Gretl Nova, who has come to that island in search of a hoarded treasure. Then they come upon an inscription written in Ancient Greek and soon find out the translation from the pile of one of the group's girls, Becky's books. What did that inscription mean? Then they come upon a number of obstacles, finally reaching the lost city of Atlantis, where they make friends with two major Atlanteans, Carnaxa Crehonerex, the current princess of Atlantis, Siphonei, a commoner, who was the friend of the super villain of Atlantis, Carel Atlaniphon (Carnaxa's cousin), who was also known as Carel the Wicked. How and why did he become wicked? Were the teens along with the Atlanteans able to defeat him? And what about our heroes? Were they able to go back to their own world? If you wanna know the answers of the questions I asked, guess you have to go through this book. 'Journey to Atlantis' is a young adult fiction book that compiles adventure, romance, comedy, friendship and a lot of facts about the hypothetical and mysterious city of Atlantis.

Fiction. Young Adult. STEALTH OF THE NINJA, book eight in the "Submarine Outlaw" series, brings Alfred, our courageous and idealistic protagonist, to a whole new level of experience when he pilots his homemade submarine to Japan. Here he visits a strange old man who lives on an abandoned freighter drifting on the sea. The man -- a ninja, in fact -- challenges Al to acquire greater physical strength and stealth. But it is also the time of the 2011 tsunami, and the giant wave capsizes and sinks the ship, taking his new teacher with it. Al barely escapes in his sub. Certain that the old man is still alive and trapped inside the sunken ship, Al faces the difficult decision of whether to attempt a most dangerous rescue. Should a seventeen-year-old put his life at great risk to save a one-hundred-year-old man? Or can one sometimes say that the risk is simply too great? Al must decide quickly. Time is running out.

"Three young boys find a new island in the middle of a river in their home town and decide to make it into a kingdom for themselves. Over time, they develop it into a utopia and most of the town decide to join them in their utopia. Many themes are developed as to what makes a modern and inclusive utopia"--