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S. A. Bodeen (or Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen) is an American children's and young adult book author.She is best known for her young adult science fiction novels The Compound and The Gardener, and books for children and adults like A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose and for her picture books about Elizabeti, a young Tanzanian girl.
Island trilogy boxed set. Island is a novel trilogy by Canadian author Gordon Korman. The books are set in contemporary times and designed for young teenagers. The series consists of: Shipwreck (2000) Survival (2001) Escape (2001) [1] Island Trilogy Bind-Up Book (2006)
The book was first released on April 29, 2008, through Feiwel & Friends and centers upon a young man named Eli who has been living in a compound for six years. Bodeen came up with the idea of including cannibalism in the novel after watching a television show where "a dinosaur fed a favorite offspring the bodies of its less fortunate brothers ...
The HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy vessel sailed by Captain Cook in 1778 during the American War of Independence
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Shipwreck Island may refer to: Shipwreck Island, a water ...
The story centres on two cousins, Dick and Emmeline Lestrange, who are marooned with a galley cook on an island in the South Pacific Ocean following a shipwreck. The galley cook, Paddy Button, assumes responsibility for the children and teaches them how to survive, cautioning them to avoid the "arita" berries, which he calls "the never-wake-up berries".
Afterward, the old man claims, the townspeople never believed him, and the boy spent his life doing odd jobs and searching for the mysterious island. The old man ends by commenting that the breeze looks just right for a sail as he limps back down toward the harbor, suggesting the old man is the boy from the story.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Shipwreck is a book published in 1974 that contains text by John Fowles and ...