1. The Cay

2. Description : For fans of Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins comes Theodore Taylor&#8217s classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, The Cay. Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Cura&#231ao. War has always been a game to him, and he&#8217s eager to glimpse it firsthand&#8211until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed. 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&#8217s warning about black people: &#8220They are different, and they live differently.&#8221 But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip&#8217s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy.&#8220Mr. Taylor has provided an exciting story&#8230The idea that all humanity would benefit from this special form of color blindness permeates the whole book&#8230The result is a story with a high ethical purpose but no sermon.&#8221&#8212New York Times Book Review &#8220A taut tightly compressed story of endurance and revelation&#8230At once barbed and tender, tense and fragile&#8212as Timothy would say, &#8216outrageous good.&#8217&#8221&#8212Kirkus Reviews * &#8220Fully realized setting&#8230artful, unobtrusive use of dialect&#8230the representation of a hauntingly deep love, the poignancy of which is rarely achieved in children&#8217s literature.&#8221&#8212School Library Journal, Starred &#8220Starkly dramatic, believable and compelling.&#8221&#8212Saturday Review &#8220A tense and

3. moving experience in reading.&#8221&#8212Publishers Weekly &#8220Eloquently underscores the intrinsic brotherhood of man.&#8221&#8212Booklist &quotThis is one of the best survival stories since Robinson Crusoe.&quot&#8212The Washington Star &#183A New York Times Best Book of the Year &#183A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year &#183A Horn Book Honor Book &#183An American Library Association Notable Book &#183A Publishers Weekly Children&#8217s Book to Remember &#183A Child Study Association&#8217s Pick of Children&#8217s Books of the Year &#183Jane Addams Book Award &#183Lewis Carroll Shelf Award &#183Commonwealth Club of California: Literature Award &#183Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People Award &#183Woodward School Annual Book Award &#183Friends of the Library Award, University of California at Irvine