Title: The Cay
First published: 1969
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Friendship, Prejudices, Shipwrecks, Blacks, Survival, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Adventure stories, Children's fiction, Survival, fiction, Friendship, fiction, Blacks, fiction, Shipwrecks, fiction, Prejudices, fiction