Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780395069622
ISBN: 0395069629
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 1960-09-09
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
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Summary: A book every young girl would love!!! And should read
Comment: This is a beautiful book for a young teen girl I read it as a teen and never forgot it,so much so I bought it for my teen daughter!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Comment: The book was a fantastic book! My daughter adored the book when she read it in class. I personally enjoyed it alot! Beautifully written book about adventure,saddness,and hope.A girl named Karana gets stranded on an island for 18 years. It was a hard and depressing journey through life for Karana, but about 3 or 4 years after gets she rescued by some men.
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Summary: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Comment: This is the story of Karana, a young Indian girl raised on an island off the coast of California. Supposedly it is based on a true story, and it tells of how she survived on her native island after all of her people were removed and her younger brother was killed. The reader never knows why Karana's people were removed from the island, which would have helped me understand the story a bit better.
While Scott O'Dell is a good storyteller, there are some gaps that I wished he had explained better. For instance, when the Aleuts first came to the island when Karana's father was still living, there seems to be no gap in communications. Somehow the Aleuts can communicate with the natives. When the white men come and cart off Karana's people there again is no communication gap. However, after the Aleuts return to the island many years later, Karana cannot understand the native Aleut girl who befriends her. Finally, when we read of O'Dell's afterward, he tells how Karana cannot communicate with the whites except for sign language.
But this inconsistency doesn't detract from an otherwise well told tale. Karana fends for herself for years on her island. She befriends the leader of the pack of wild dogs that killed her brother, she breaks with tribal tradition concerning women and weapons, she finds food, she builds a shelter, she survives storms, earthquakes, and a tidal wave, and she retains her sanity. This book is well written and moves at a quick pace. Asit is written for children, adults can read it quickly, but without becoming bored with the book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A True Survivor
Comment: Winner of the Newbery Award, "Island of the Blue Dolphins" tells the story of Karana, a young Indian woman who becomes the sole occupant on a small island in the Pacific for several years. Based on a real woman who lived alone on San Nicolas Island from 1835 to 1853, it tells a moving story of survival where a woman with little means is forced to become resourceful, physically and emotionally strong and above all kept afloat by that fragilest of threads called hope.
When a band of Russian sailors called the Aleuts land on the island, their presence quickly becomes a bad omen for the small Indian tribe who live there. After a trade disagreement goes horribly awry, several members of the tribe are killed, including Karana's father Chief Chowig. Not long after they bury their dead, another ship full of white men arrives and agrees to take them to a safer place, their bout with the Aleuts now posing a threat to their livelihood.
In their haste to leave their small village of Ghalas-at, no one notices Karana's younger brother Ramo run back for his favored fishing spear. Knowing it is far too late to turn back for him, Karana goes overboard and swims back to the island to wait with Ramo for the next ship. She would wait a great many years to be rescued, many a tragedy great and small befalling her before she would see white sails on the horizon once again.
During her fight to survive, Karana contends with climate, the acquisition of food and shelter and the wild dogs that roam the cliffs. She also contends with the beliefs of her tribe, the construction and use of weapons strictly forbidden to women. This belief is unavoidably challenged when Karana realizes she must have a spear for not only fishing but self-defense as well.
O'Dell writes with a wistful air, Karana's voice becoming a poetic surrogate for the real Lost Woman of San Nicolas (as she was so known by historians), her own story never heard or extensively documented, a thing that is regrettably due to language barriers. He also writes of the comfort of companionship and the deep and prolonged yearning we all experience in the utter absence of human relationships.
Bottom line: A survival tale for the ages, "Island of the Blue Dolphins" has been read for almost five decades and will continue to be read for many more, its themes of hope and perseverence making it a veritable cornerstone in young adult literature.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Classic adventure
Comment: This is a story I have read many times since I was a child. I'm sure every little girl goes through that phase where she would like nothing more than to be a wild maiden living alone with the animals, and that is probably the basis of a lot of appeal. But that does destract from the fact that this is an incredibly written, incredibly moving story of survival and the overcoming of loneliness.
Based on an old story of a woman who survived for 18 years by herself, this tells the story of a young girl who is left on an island after her people build ships and leave their homeland. She jumps off the ship to rescue her brother, who subsequently dies. While waiting for ships to return for her, she dominates the island by herself with animals for company.
The description is real and powerful, and O'Dell provides a strong character. It's great adventure and touching drama.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A book every young girl would love!!! And should read
Comment: This is a beautiful book for a young teen girl I read it as a teen and never forgot it,so much so I bought it for my teen daughter!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Comment: The book was a fantastic book! My daughter adored the book when she read it in class. I personally enjoyed it alot! Beautifully written book about adventure,saddness,and hope.A girl named Karana gets stranded on an island for 18 years. It was a hard and depressing journey through life for Karana, but about 3 or 4 years after gets she rescued by some men.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Comment: This is the story of Karana, a young Indian girl raised on an island off the coast of California. Supposedly it is based on a true story, and it tells of how she survived on her native island after all of her people were removed and her younger brother was killed. The reader never knows why Karana's people were removed from the island, which would have helped me understand the story a bit better.
While Scott O'Dell is a good storyteller, there are some gaps that I wished he had explained better. For instance, when the Aleuts first came to the island when Karana's father was still living, there seems to be no gap in communications. Somehow the Aleuts can communicate with the natives. When the white men come and cart off Karana's people there again is no communication gap. However, after the Aleuts return to the island many years later, Karana cannot understand the native Aleut girl who befriends her. Finally, when we read of O'Dell's afterward, he tells how Karana cannot communicate with the whites except for sign language.
But this inconsistency doesn't detract from an otherwise well told tale. Karana fends for herself for years on her island. She befriends the leader of the pack of wild dogs that killed her brother, she breaks with tribal tradition concerning women and weapons, she finds food, she builds a shelter, she survives storms, earthquakes, and a tidal wave, and she retains her sanity. This book is well written and moves at a quick pace. Asit is written for children, adults can read it quickly, but without becoming bored with the book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A True Survivor
Comment: Winner of the Newbery Award, "Island of the Blue Dolphins" tells the story of Karana, a young Indian woman who becomes the sole occupant on a small island in the Pacific for several years. Based on a real woman who lived alone on San Nicolas Island from 1835 to 1853, it tells a moving story of survival where a woman with little means is forced to become resourceful, physically and emotionally strong and above all kept afloat by that fragilest of threads called hope.
When a band of Russian sailors called the Aleuts land on the island, their presence quickly becomes a bad omen for the small Indian tribe who live there. After a trade disagreement goes horribly awry, several members of the tribe are killed, including Karana's father Chief Chowig. Not long after they bury their dead, another ship full of white men arrives and agrees to take them to a safer place, their bout with the Aleuts now posing a threat to their livelihood.
In their haste to leave their small village of Ghalas-at, no one notices Karana's younger brother Ramo run back for his favored fishing spear. Knowing it is far too late to turn back for him, Karana goes overboard and swims back to the island to wait with Ramo for the next ship. She would wait a great many years to be rescued, many a tragedy great and small befalling her before she would see white sails on the horizon once again.
During her fight to survive, Karana contends with climate, the acquisition of food and shelter and the wild dogs that roam the cliffs. She also contends with the beliefs of her tribe, the construction and use of weapons strictly forbidden to women. This belief is unavoidably challenged when Karana realizes she must have a spear for not only fishing but self-defense as well.
O'Dell writes with a wistful air, Karana's voice becoming a poetic surrogate for the real Lost Woman of San Nicolas (as she was so known by historians), her own story never heard or extensively documented, a thing that is regrettably due to language barriers. He also writes of the comfort of companionship and the deep and prolonged yearning we all experience in the utter absence of human relationships.
Bottom line: A survival tale for the ages, "Island of the Blue Dolphins" has been read for almost five decades and will continue to be read for many more, its themes of hope and perseverence making it a veritable cornerstone in young adult literature.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Classic adventure
Comment: This is a story I have read many times since I was a child. I'm sure every little girl goes through that phase where she would like nothing more than to be a wild maiden living alone with the animals, and that is probably the basis of a lot of appeal. But that does destract from the fact that this is an incredibly written, incredibly moving story of survival and the overcoming of loneliness.
Based on an old story of a woman who survived for 18 years by herself, this tells the story of a young girl who is left on an island after her people build ships and leave their homeland. She jumps off the ship to rescue her brother, who subsequently dies. While waiting for ships to return for her, she dominates the island by herself with animals for company.
The description is real and powerful, and O'Dell provides a strong character. It's great adventure and touching drama.
The gripping story of young Karana, who survives by herself for eighteen years on a deserted island off the California coast.
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