Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
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Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.Karana is that girl. She becomes stranded on the Island of the Blue Dolphins after her tribe leaves on a ship for the mainland without her and her brother, Ramo. A pack of wild dogs kills Ramo, and when Karana tries to avenge her brother's death, she befriends the pack leader and names him Rontu.
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Fiction, Indians of North America, Islands, Juvenile fiction, Newbery Medal, Survival, Survival skills, Brothers and sisters, Curricula, Survival Stories, Action & Adventure, Wilderness survival, Young women, People & Places, Native American, Girls & Women, Children's fiction, Indians of north america, fiction, Islands, fiction, Survival, fiction, Large type books, Indians of mexico, fiction, California, fiction, Chumash women, Dolphins, Human-animal relationships, Newbery Medal books, Islas, Indios de América del Norte, Novela juvenil, Jóvenes (Mujeres), Ficción juvenil, Shipwreck survival, Supervivencia, Novela, Marine animals, fiction, American fiction, Translations into Chinese, Language Arts - General, Juvenile Nonfiction, Children: Grades 4-6, San Nicolas Island (Calif.), Water security, Foreign relations, Bibliography, award:Newbery_award, lexile:1000, lexile_range:1001-1100, age:min:8, age:max:11, grade:min:3, grade:max:7People
Juana Marie (-1853)Places
California, Channel Islands (Calif.), Channel Islands, San Nicolas Island, San Nicolas Island (Calif.)Times
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
2010, Sandpiper
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Lan se de hai tun dao: Island of the blue dolphins
2007, Xin lei chu ban she
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
1978, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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La isla de los delfines azules
June 1964, Lectorum Publications
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"With a new introdutction by Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry"--Cover.
Newbery Medal, 1961.
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Story of a young girl abandoned on a small island by her family and her village, and of her fight for survival.
The incredible courage, determination and strength of this girl is showcased throughout as she learns to do the things that only the men of her tribe did before, and battles not only the hunters who frequent the island, but also her desperate loneliness as well...
Excellent read for kids 11 and older.
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