The cay
By: by Theodore Taylor
Edition: Bk. club ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Survival; Fiction; Friendship; Prejudices; Blacks; Shipwrecks
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.
Notes: "Book club edition"--Jkt., p. [2].

Sequel: Timothy of the cay.

Jane Addams Book Award, 1970.

Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1970.