Grace the Pirate (Hardcover, Turtleback School & Library ed.)

Grace O'Malley doesn't want to stay at home and spin and churn all day as women do -- she wants to be a sailor and a pirate, like her dad, Black Oak. One day Grace decides she needs to show her father how serious she is about going to sea, and cuts off all her hair! Black Oak is impressed, and takes her on his next long journey. Once on board, Grace must prove herself to the other sailors. She knows she can navigate, climb riggings, and gamble as well as any man. And -- when it's a matter of life or death -- she can even fight to defend the ship.