The Cay
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Juvenile fiction.; Shipwrecks -- Juvenile fiction.; Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Description: When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.