ISBN: 0307800148 9780307800145

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism

Page count: 144

<b>For fans of <i>Hatchet</i> and <i>Island of the Blue Dolphins</i> comes Theodore Taylor’s classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, <i>The Cay</i>.</b><br>   Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.<br>   When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.”<br>    But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip’s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy.<br><br>“Mr. Taylor has provided an exciting story…The idea that all humanity would benefit from this special form of color blindness permeates the whole book…The result is a story with a high ethical purpose but no sermon.”—<b><i>New York Times</i> <i>Book Review</i></b><br>  <br> “A taut tightly compressed story of endurance and revelation…At once barbed and tender, tense and fragile—as Timothy would say, ‘outrageous good.’”—<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br>  <br> * “Fully realized setting…artful, unobtrusive use of dialect…the representation of a hauntingly deep love, the poignancy of which is rarely achieved in children’s literature.”—<b><i>School Library Journal</i>,</b> <b>Starred</b><br>  <br> “Starkly dramatic, believable and compelling.”—<b><i>Saturday Review</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> “A tense and moving experience in reading.”—<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> “Eloquently underscores the intrinsic brotherhood of man.”—<b><i>Booklist</i></b><br>  <br>"This is one of the best survival stories since <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>."—<b><i>The Washington Star</i></b><br><br> · A <i>New York Times</i> Best Book of the Year<br> · A <i>School Library Journal</i> Best Book of the Year<br> · A <i>Horn Book</i> Honor Book<br> · An American Library Association Notable Book<br> · A <i>Publishers Weekly</i> Children’s Book to Remember<br> · A Child Study Association’s Pick of Children’s Books of the Year<br> · Jane Addams Book Award<br> · Lewis Carroll Shelf Award<br> · Commonwealth Club of California: Literature Award<br> · Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People Award<br> · Woodward School Annual Book Award<br> · Friends of the Library Award, University of California at Irvine