Island of the Blue Dolphins
By: Scott O'Dell
Edition: 50th anniversary ed.
Publisher: Sandpiper
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780547328614
Subjects: Islands; Juvenile fiction; Survival; Indians of North America; Fiction
Description: Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.Karana is that girl. She becomes stranded on the Island of the Blue Dolphins after her tribe leaves on a ship for the mainland without her and her brother, Ramo. A pack of wild dogs kills Ramo, and when Karana tries to avenge her brother's death, she befriends the pack leader and names him Rontu.
Notes: "With a new introdutction by Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry"--Cover.

Newbery Medal, 1961.