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"1914, rural West Kentucky. Twelve-year-old Emma Mae, ten-year-old Edward, and their seven-year-old brother Fred dash from their one-room school at Sunny Slope during a thunderstorm. Suddenly, as they run past the graveyard near their home, there is a close lightning flash. In an instant, they find that they have traveled back through time and are now on board a large clipper ship filled with passengers who are en route from Germany to America. What...
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"There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business--one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea back home to New York could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge...
3) Ship breaker
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In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
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