School Ship Tobermory
School Ship Tobermory: Book #1
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Crawford Logan
- Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Description
The author of the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency draws from his own sailing experience to deliver this rip-roaring adventure on the high seas. The first volume in a middle-grade adventure-mystery series perfect for boys and girls!
Ben and Fee MacTavish are twins who’ve been homeschooled on a submarine. Now they’re heading to the School Ship Tobermory. This is no ordinary school—it’s a sailing ship where kids from around the world train to be sailors and learn about all things nautical. Come aboard as the kids set sail for their first adventure.
Ben and Fee make friends as they adjust to life aboard the Tobermory. When a film crew arrives on a nearby ship, the Albatross, Ben is one of the lucky kids chosen as a movie extra. But after a day’s filming, his suspicions are aroused. Are the director and crew really shooting a film? Or are they protecting a secret on the lower decks of the Albatross? Ben, Fee, and their friends set out to investigate. Are they prepared for what they might find?
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School Ship Tobermory Series

School Ship Tobermory
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Crawford Logan
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency draws from his own sailing experience to deliver this rip-roaring adventure on the high seas. The first volume in a middle-grade adventure-mystery series perfect for boys and girls!
Ben and Fee MacTavish are twins who’ve been homeschooled on a submarine. Now they’re heading to the School... Read more »

The Sands of Shark Island
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Imagine going to school on a boat! The rip-roaring excitement continues in the second volume of this adventure-mystery series set on the high seas, from the author of the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency!
Ben and Fee MacTavish and their schoolmates on board the School Ship Tobermory are headed thousands of miles from their base in Mull to... Read more »

The Secret of the Dark Waterfall: A School Ship Tobermory Adventure (Book 4)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
Narrated by: Crawford Logan
Length: 3 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The School Ship Tobermory and its intrepid young crew are back in Hebridean waters. When a violent storm blows them off course to a remote island, they discover a fisherman's journal written a hundred years ago which tells of a mysterious shipwreck crammed with treasure. But without a precise location, where do they start looking? An... Read more »
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