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Island of the Blue Dolphins | 
| Author: Scott O'dell
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Category: Book
List Price: $10.95
Buy New: $9.85
You Save: $1.10 (10%)
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 171526
Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 223
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0786272546
EAN: 9780786272549
Publication Date: February 2, 2005
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Product Description
This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another and waited for a ship to take her away.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 An absolutely wonderful story for children and grownup history buffs! December 4, 2008
When I was a little girl, I had seen the movie first. It was a good movie, but I like the book moreso. It wasn't until I became an adult that I learned that this children's book is based on a true story of Juana Maria, the "Lone Woman of San Nicolas", a Nicoleno Indian marooned for 18 years on San Nicolas Island off the California coast before being rescued in 1853. I enjoy studying the history of California, so to find this out made the book even more fascinating for me. So I recommend this book to anyone, but especially young girls in school because it's a good positive female role model in it.
 Weird Book (SPOILERS INSIDE) October 23, 2008
This book is fine. Rontu shouldn't of died. You knew she was going to be left on the island and then be rescued. It also moves to quickly, every 10.05 pages a year passes.That's why it was OK. I think you should be at least 9 to read it because smaller people might not understand it.
Island of the Blue Dolphins January 30, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O' Dell was the best book that I have ever read. I just couldn't put it down. It was filled with drama. I do not recommend this book for anyone under the age of 8. They might not understand the story. A teenage girl, Karana, living with her Native American tribe on an island off the coast of California experiences some big changes. This happens when some Russians come to the island and offer to take the tribe to the mainland. Karana's brother is left behind so she jumps off the ship and swims to shore. They live together happily until her brother is eaten by a pack of wild dogs. Karana must now defend herself. She chooses to go to the mainland when the Russians come back to pick her up. She lives the rest of her life on the sandy beaches of California.
Wonderful story of history November 9, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very touching story based on the small amount of factual information preserved on the Lone Woman of San Nicholas Island. It has been a fantastic jumping-off point for explorations into Chumash culture and history, visits to the graveyard where the woman is buried and Santa Barbara history. O'Dell has incorporated the known facts into a well-written and engaging book, with a very touching ending, as most readers would know that the woman died some weeks after being brought to the mainland, probably because of eating food to which she was unaccustomed. Although all members of her tribe had died by the time she arrived and no one was able to speak her language, she was so happy to be among people that she welcomed many visitors before her death, communicating her stories the best she could. By all accounts she was a very sociable and pleasant woman. This book inspires children to play at "survival" games and adults to ponder European treatment of Native Americans.
 It was okay. June 5, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought the book was okay. It was kind of predictable because you know somehow that the tribe was going to get killed and she would be the only one on the island. The explanation in the beginning kind of gives it away.
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