Timothy of the cay
By: Theodore Taylor.
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780380721191
Subjects: Shipwrecks -- Fiction.; Survival -- Fiction.; Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Fiction.; Blind -- Fiction.; People with disabilities -- Fiction.; Shipwrecks -- Juvenile fiction.; Survival skills -- Juvenile fiction.; Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Juvenile fiction.; Blind -- Juvenile fiction.; People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction.; Caribbean Area -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.