Another great book for a fifth grade class, this story of a girl's isolation and strife living alone on an island is simply amazing! A book about survival, isolation, and patience would be a really wonderful text for a class to dive into and discuss. I think a fifth grade teacher could have students...
5th grade Newbery Medal winner Karana is an Indian girl that lives on an island that is shaped like a dolphin when you see it from above. She lives there with her family and tribe until one day a ship comes and tries to take over the island in order to hunt sea otter. The men on the ship capture a...
I've been reading a lot of good books lately and this one is no exception. This is a beautifully told survival story about a girl name Karana. It tells of her struggles whilst living on the island alone with her animal companions and what she does to survive until rescue comes for her. I really lo...
Sections of the book definitely grew in my memory over time. And I had completely forgotten about the Black Cave and the tidal wave. The writing is clunkier than I remember it being. There are factual errors (sea otters rarely have twins and when they do one pup is abandoned) and American Indian ste...
Karana is a young Indian girl stranded alone on her anscestral island. As the years go on and the ship does not come back, she must learn to survive on her own. Her story is one of survival and courage. She must defend herself against the wild dogs roaming on the island, and somehow keep hope that t...
Time to catch up on reviewing books I actually read a few months ago!I haven't read this since I was a child. I didn't get much out of it then. It's a beautiful book, but seemed frighteningly somber to me. Also, I was (and kind of still am) all about dialogue, and the main character, Karana, spends ...
This is a book for older children or you YA readers. It is based on a real historical event, where a native-american woman was abandoned on an island for 18 years. The book, in the style it is written is far ahead of its time. It could be published today, and would fit right in in modern writing. ...
Read this with the kids, and we all enjoyed it. It was quite interesting to imagine having an entire island all to oneself—both the good and bad parts of that. It really lit up my 7-year-old daughter's imagination, especially.Not long before we finished, I read that it was based on a true story, and...
Back in the '70s and early '80s teachers liked to make their students cry, and so they forced them to read books like Island of the Blue Dolphins, which is just the kind of good old fashioned heartbreaking stuff to do the trick!It starts of great this story of a Chumash (local natives to the Santa B...
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