Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O'Dell

Teen & Young Adult

Penguin Books, Limited (UK)

Jim Lynne is idly playing darts in Liverpool when his brother, Ted, calls him over to a table to ask a question about the ship that he is working on. It seems the ship, strangely named the 290, is not the cargo ship that people are saying it is. Whatever its purpose, it is certainly built for speed. But Jim thinks he knows that purpose: it is being built secretly for the Confederate navy.  This is the story of the intertwined fates of Ted and the 290. The ship would go down in history as one of the most famous vessels of the Civil War, the true scourge of the Azores sailing under its proper name, the Alabama. Jim, whose father is a slave trader, will have to reconcile his own hatred for slavery with his love for the ship he made and the Captain who sails her. Thankfully, destiny will give him a chance to do just that . . .

The 290

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

Island Of The Blue Dolphins

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Action & Adventure

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

While awaiting trial for murder and withholding from the king the obligatory fifth of the gold found in Cibola, Esteban, a seventeen-year-old cartographer, recalls his adventures with a band of conquistadors.

The King's Fifth

HMH Books for Young Readers

Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches.
Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply.
More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.

Sara Bishop (Literature Experience 1993)

Historical Fiction

Houghton Mifflin School

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

Newbery book winners are voted the best books for the teen audience for that year; whereas, Newbery Honor books are those books which were considered as close runner-ups. The Award itself was created by Mr. John Newbery.

Newbery Medal Bookshelf

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GARY PAULSEN

E.L. Konigsburg

Rachel Field

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