Students Across the Seven Seas is a novel series published by Penguin. There is no set author for the series. The books center around a fictional Study Abroad program with shares its name with the series title and is abbreviated S.A.S.S. Each book centers around a teenage American girl and her experiences studying abroad in a foreign country such as France, Spain, Sweden or Italy. The titles of the books are witty play on words featuring the country and a common phrase, such as Spain or Shine and Swede Dreams.
Books (in order of publishing)
- Westminster Abby. Set in England with main character Abby.
- Getting the Boot. Set in Italy with main character Kelly.
- Spain or Shine. Set in Spain with main character Elena.
- Pardon my French. Set in France with main character Nicole.
- The Sound of Munich. Set in Germany with main character Siena.
- Heart and Salsa. Set in Mexico with main character Cat.
- Now and Zen. Set in Japan with main character Nori.
- Swede Dreams. Set in Sweden with main character Calista.
- Girl Overboard. Set in the Dominican Republic with main character Marina.
- The Finnish Line. Set in Finland with main character Mo.
- When Irish Guys Are Smiling. Set in Ireland with main character Delk.
- French Kissmas. Set in France with main character Nicole.
- The Great Call of China. Set in China with main characters Cece.
- Up Over Down Under. Set in Australia and Washington, D.C. with the main characters Eliza and Billie.
Famous quotes containing the words students and/or seas:
“President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,”
—John Masefield (1878–1967)