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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)
A Stranger Came Ashore is a 1975 young adult novel written by Scottish author Mollie Hunter. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Set in the Shetland Islands in the north of Scotland , the plot revolves around a boy called Robbie Henderson, his family and a mysterious stranger named Finn Learson.
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 protagonist Jan (John) Bober, a half-Polish half-English Virginia pioneer, flees from government pursuit in a pirate ship. However, it runs into heavy water and wrecks near the island. Jan and his two Arawak companions Arnak and Wagura (former slaves from the ship), the only survivors of the shipwreck, live on the island for over a year.
The HMS Endeavour was a British Royal Navy vessel sailed by Captain Cook in 1778 during the American War of Independence
The Captain (novel) The Captain from Connecticut; Captain Jan; Captains Courageous; The Caribbean Cruise Caper; Cat O'Nine Tails (novel) The Cat's Table; The Cheyne Mystery; Corby Flood; The Crossing (Miller novel) The Cruel Sea (novel) The Cruise of the Dazzler; The Cruiser
The novel centres around archaeologist David Norfolk as he searches for a Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Wrack is Bradley's first published work of fiction and has been nominated for various awards including the Miles Franklin Award [2] and Australia's Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book. [3]