About this title: When the young Indian girl Karana's tribe leaves their island because of marauding Russian fishermen, Karana insists on staying. Left to fend for herself and to do men's work that she had never done before, Karana spends 18 years on the island with only a dog as company. Based on a true story. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal.
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Description: Lewin, Ted. Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 192 p. Contains: Illustrations. Illustrated American Classics. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780440940005ISBN:0440940001
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 197 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. Gently used condition, tight, reading crease, spine is in tact with some shelf wear, name on inside front cover, very lite tanning, otherwise inside is clean. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has very minor wear, cover is creased, pages are clean and unmarked. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 197 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Nice soft cover, lightly read, some shelf wear to cover, light yellowing to pages, stk #2177q9. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 197 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Different cover than pictured. Book is pristine. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 197 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780440940005ISBN:0440940001
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Has a scrape on the bottom edge of spine, slight wear on the edges, store stamp on top edge. 208 p.; 1.00" x 7.25" x 4.00". Laurel Leaf Books. Juvenile reading level. read more
"Savannah Roberts Ms. Campanella English 3 2 October 2009
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Genre of the book Island of the Blue Dolphins is Land and the Frontier. I believe that this is the theme for the book because Karana goes from living on the "Island of the Blue Dolphins" with her whole family, to being the only person left on the island and having to fight for her life, find her own food, and keep healthy all on her own. This is the theme land and the Frontier because she is experiencing a brand new life. I chose this book because I was told it was a great book and that I should read it. In this book the protagonist is Karana, a girl whose family is killed on the "Island of the Blue Dolphins" and is stuck on the island all by her for eighteen years. Her father was chief of the Ghalas-at, and was killed with the rest of the tribe, by the Aluets after an aggressive fight over killing animals for food on the island. The antagonist of this story is the Aluets, they were a different tribe that came onto the island once in a while to hunt for food, which turns into a massive killing between both tribes, leaving two people alive Karana the Chief of Ghalas-at's daughter, and his son Ramo who was only six years old. After a while of just them two being on the island by themselves, Ramo gets attacked by dogs which leads to his death on the island, leaving Karana all alone. Eighteen years later the "The White Men" come to the island and find Karana and help her out.
The theme of the book is to never give up, even if you think it's never going to get better. Because Karana went through many struggles, and in the end was saved by "The White Men" A motif that happen in the book is the fighting between Karana, her brother Ramo, and the pack of dogs.
Scott O'Dell's writing style is slow passed. It doesn't start to speed up, until Ramo gets attacked by the pack of dogs on the island. I personally really like the book because it intense and you never know whats going to happen next."
"Layla, Now I am finished with a book called Island Of The Blue Dolphins I would recommend it to kids ages 7-13. I think in this book the beginning starts out very slow. All of a sudden it catches your attention by quoting"my brother was left on the island all alone and I am on a ship" "so as fast as I could i jumped into the sea" Now from reading those couple of lines I really want to keep reading. And when I kept reading I knew that I had made the right choice. Now I am not going to tell you all of the exciting things I am just going to tell you some and for the other ones well I guess you will just have to find those out on your own. Now the first sad/exciting thing that happened was when the brother had died. He had died when he went wondering off by himself and wild dogs killed him. Now maybe I will give away just one more thing that happened. So I just told you that the wild dogs had killed her brother so you would think that the sister would be mad. And indeed she was. But there was something different about one of those dogs. And she liked it so much that she decided to keep him. She took care of him and even gave him a name............RONTU!!!!! Now I will not give away anymore secrets and you will just have to read the book to find out the other action packed events. Now in the story I liked the part when the aleuts (bad people) had come back to the island for the second time. And the girl met another girl from the aleuts and made really good friends with her. I liked this part because it really surprised me. It surprised me because the aleuts had killed her father so why would she make friends with her. Well that is all I can say for now and I hope you go and read Island Of The Blue Dolphins trust me you will NOT regret it."
"This book really disturbed me. I read it when I was a young teenager and the idea of being stranded on an inhospitable island for a year by myself was, well, disturbing. And I never fully understood the relationship between the girl and the wolf. Perhaps I'll read it again now that I'm a self-sufficient adult who wouldn't mind a little peace and quiet for a little while..."
"Here is a story that actually has nothing to do with the book. In the tiny mountain town of Julian, CA, where I went to summer camp as a kid (and worked at summer camp as an adult), and where my parents currently live, is a house. It is my favorite house ever. It's a little gabled stone cottage that looks like it belongs in a Beatrix Potter story. It's shaded and surrounded by apple trees -- most of which burned down during the most recent fires, which is unfortunate but makes the house easier to see. That beautiful stone cottage, which I have admired and strained to see while driving to camp or my parents' house for ten years or more, belongs to Scott O'Dell's ex-wife. Or rather, belonged -- she died last year. In an ideal world, the family would put the house up for sale and I could buy it (this being an ideal world, I could actually afford to buy a house). However, the family knows just how awesome the stone cottage is, and have so far shown no signs of selling. So I will just have to be happy that they have not torn it down or modernized it, and that it hasn't burned down yet. Scott O'Dell's ex-wife. Weird."
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