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Taylor,
Theodore
THE CAY
New York : Avon, 1970.
IL 5-8 RL 6.3
ISBN 0385079060
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| Phillip's
life starts off fairly routine. During World War II, his father is a petroleum
engineer on Curacao . He goes to school, has school buddies and asks a
lot of why questions. When his mom decides life would be safer back in
Virginia, she boards a liner with Phillip. A shipwreck washes Phillip up
on a raft with an old, very old, Timothy, a Caribbean shiphand who has
a lot to show Phillip to prepare him for survival on the uninhabited island
too small to be even a speck on the map of Devil's Mouth area. |
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SUBJECTS:
Caribbean Area -- Fiction
Survival -- Fiction
Race relations -- Fiction
Blind -- Fiction |
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