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England and France have declared war, and Corrie Harriman joins in on the action. Corrie’s War is a 16-part naval adventure series where Corrie joins the Royal Navy and must combat deadly enemies, navigate through hazardous storms, and even endure cruelty by the hands of her own crew. No one suspects that Corrie is actually a young woman - and she plans to keep it that way.

In Storm Fury! we find Corrie captaining the frigate Swift, off the coast of the country we know today as "Greenland". Corrie has just seen her best friend Tom Potts struck down in a ship-to-ship action, and it seems to her utterly unfair that Tom should have died so young. She wonders if there life after death, and if there is, what has become of Tom? Is her friend in some nether realm? Is Tom even now waking up in the afterlife and wondering where he is? Sail the seas in this action-packed naval adventure of historical proportions.

The fifth book in the naval adventures of Corrie Harriman, a woman serving in Nelson's navy. The trouble with dressing as a male naval officer in a crowded ship with a crew of more than 180 men, women, and children, is that it leaves very little room for romance. No privacy! Even if you are the captain!

Corrie is serving in the Royal Navy. She is an officer in the frigate Swift during the war with Napoleon. Because women are not supposed to serve, she has borrowed a spare uniform from her friend and fellow midshipman Tom Potts and has dressed herself as a man...During her first night watch at sea, Corrie has taken the ship into a heavily fortified bay to burn three enemy coasters, but an unfortunate shift in the direction of the wind has left the ship trapped in the bay.

Corrie’s life is threatened by the evil Master-at-Arms Mr. Sly. Corrie meets the escaped slave Billy Brown, the captain of the Maintop, and wonders if Billy, too, is a woman in disguise. All the while, she feels the ambiance of a warship in the time of Nelson: scrubbing the deck, keeping watches, learning to speak the language, and to find her way from the cat lashings to the bilge hole.

Corrie’s War is a 16-part naval adventure series where Corrie joins the Royal Navy and must combat deadly enemies, navigate through hazardous storms, and even endure cruelty by the hands of her own crew. No one suspects that Corrie is actually a young woman - and she plans to keep it that way. In Enemy Ship!, her brother, James, battles a French captain aboard a hostile ship, and Corrie must save him from impending doom.

On the planet of the mile-high Yumi trees, only a few lucky boys and girls may fly bats to the treetops to harvest the fruit. Matthew John would like to join them, but to make his dream come true he must enter the cave of Oomba the lion. 'It was awesome. My 6-year old Liesel loved it.' -- K. W. in New York 'Farah and Sophie, aged 8 and 9, were sitting up in bed wondering what was going to happen next.' -- C. H. B. in Singapore