Submarine Outlaw

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.

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.

Alfred and his crew clash with the pirates that plagues Africa's eastern shores. He escapes overland to Johannesburg, with a reckless young inventor from Soweto, witnessing the beauty and ugliness of post-Apartheid South Africa. Inspired by the life of Nelson Mandela, Alfred is ready to become an active environmentalist.

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.

Alfred, Hollie the dog, and the crew of Seaweed the gull explore India, where they experience the wrath of the Indian navy and befriend a ten-year-old "untouchable."

In this sequel to his best-selling novel Submarine Outlaw from 2008, Alfred, the intrepid young submarine outlaw, once again sets out to sea in his homemade submarine. In Journey to Atlantis, Alfred and his crew ? his dog Hollie and his second mate the seagull Seaweed ? sail across the Atlantic and enter the Mediterranean in search of the fabled lost island of Atlantis. Alfred must be both practical and trust his premonitions on many occasions to stay safe on this ambitious and far-reaching adventure. From a daring rescue of drowning fishermen to becoming involved in a skirmish between Canadian coastguard ships and Spanish fishing trawlers, from escaping an exploding WWII sea mine to colliding with a partially submerged container filled with toys, from turning the chase on bumbling pirates to an unscheduled camel trek into the desert, Alfred's submarine voyage brings him closer and closer to the legendary island until one moonless night he finds himself a little too close for comfort.

"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"--

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