num_pages: 142
description: Late one night (in the world of the future), a giant cargo hovership makes an emergency landing somewhere in the middle of the United States and an enterprising teenager named Johnny Clinton stows away on it. In the space of only a few hours the craft crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The sole survivor is Johnny, whose life is saved by the "People of the Sea"— dolphins. A school of these fantastic creatures guides him to an island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. There Johnny becomes involved with the work of a strange and fascinating research laboratory, learns skin-diving and survives a typhoon — only to risk his life again, immediately afterwards, in a cliffhanger of a climax!
language: English
title: Dolphin Island
titlecomplete: Dolphin Island
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Animals, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult, Classics, Childrens, Fantasy, 20th Century
ratings_count: 1725
places: Great Barrier Reef
publisher: Berkley Publishing Corporation, by arrangement with Holt, Rinehart and Winston