num_pages: 160
description: Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until 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’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.”    But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip’s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy.
language: English
title: The Cay
titlecomplete: The Cay
genres: Classics, Adventure, Childrens, Survival, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Read For School, School, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 35641
places: Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean Islands, West Indies
series: The Cay
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: California Book Award
category: Juvenile (Silver), awardedAt: 28800000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Yearling