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Swiss Family Robinson

Emily Hutchinson

Adapts Johann Wyss's story about the adventures of a shipwrecked Swiss family as they make a new life on a tropical island that is void of human life but abundant in flora and fauna.

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And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Ten strangers--each with a sordid past--are summoned by an absent millionaire to a private island off the coast of Devon and begin to die one by one upon arrival.

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Terry and the Pirates

Julian F. Thompson

When sixteen-year-old Terry Talley stows away on a yacht, she doesn't expect to encounter another runaway and end up shipwrecked on a tiny island with a bunch of oddball pirates who are looking for so

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The Island of Dr. Moreau

H. G. Wells

Science fiction about a shipwrecked man who lands on an island inhabited by a mad scientist and the creatures he has created.

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The Island

Gary Paulsen

Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.

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Lucas

Kevin Brooks

On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from adolescence to adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy, whose presence has an unsettling e

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What Happened to Lani Garver

Carol Plum-Ucci

Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism un

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Dr. Franklin's Island

Ann Halam

When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involv

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Island of the Blue Dolphins

Scott O'Dell

Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also

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Acquainted with the Night

Sollace Hotze

During a summer on a Maine island, seventeen-year-old Molly and her older cousin become very close, as she helps him deal with his father's suicide and his experiences in the Vietnam War, and as toget

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