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Shipwreck (Island (PB))
Interest Level | Reading Level | ATOS |
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Grades 3 – 7 | Grades 2 – 5 | 4.6 |
3 Chapter
An action-packed survival suspense from bestselling and award-winning author Gordon Korman. Six kids. One shipwreck. One desert island.
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and emotional turmoil, as well as traumatizing moments presented as simply inevitable, including leaving a wailing child behind forever. All of which can be a bit harrowing for sensitive readers, so we’re recommending this for 10 and up rather than the publisher’s 8 and up.
It’s not a sequel, but an origin story, a d prequel. Abbie’s tale. The beginnings of the island, and if I can pull it off, it will explain a lot of things. There are two reasons I’m not writing a sequel.
Reading to Kids Books: Orphan Island. Grade Level: 4th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) Synopsis: In the tradition of modern-day classics like Lois Lowry’s The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island.
The chickens stop laying. Children start getting hurt. A lot of the reviews I’ve read have been frustrated with the ambiguous ending of Orphan Island. Jinny does end up leaving in the boat, along with the new Care (who is on the verge of death), but nothing is explained.
Fantasy Fiction
Jinny
Each year, a boat arrives carrying a new, young child. The oldest child then gets into the boat and sails away into the great unknown. The oldest remaining child becomes the Elder, and the new child becomes his or her Care.
Orphan Island is set on an island in the future. This island is safe only when there are 9 children on it, any more or less and it becomes a normal island and is not very safe.
Laurel Snyder
Extreme violence, much of it involving children. Extensive blood, including violent surgical imagery. A character breaks his/her own arm to feign abuse.