The cay
By: Theodore Taylor.
Publisher: Scholastic; AVON BOOKS
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780439219952
Subjects: Survival -- Fiction.; Friendship -- Fiction.; Prejudices -- Fiction.; Blacks -- Fiction.; Shipwrecks -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.