Book Blind Kid Island

He would like more of the hurricane kids on the lost island.

Book blind kid island. All i remember from the book is the main character is blind and stranded on an island with an old man. A white boy and an old black sailor man find themselves adrift with little hope of rescue and the boy is blind. The color purple by alice walker was mentioned more than a few times including in this article about the 10 books iconic feminist gloria steinem would bring to a desert island the pulitzer prize.

Voodoo is silly i knew but also frightening published in 1969 this is good story telling. Im pretty sure the boy became blind becuse of the same reason he s stranded on an island but im not sure. Taylor took only three weeks to write the cay having contemplated the story for over a decade after reading about an 11 year old who was aboard the dutch ship hato when it was torpedoed in 1942 and who was last seen by other stranded survivors as he drifted away on a liferaft.

They end up on an island. Set in 1870 this book tells the story of 6 year old ben who gets along better with animals than he does with people. The eleven year old protagonist sounds and feels real.

Search the world s most comprehensive index of full text books. I am so glad that i found it for him. I am trying to find out the name of a story my teacher read to my class years ago in fifth grade.

He was so very pleased with the book and sat down read it right away. They were in the middle of the ocean when they got separated and the boy was rescued by a black man. The man is a blind african american if i remember correctly.

This book is the 2012 creative child magazine book of the year award winner and for great reason. The cay is a teen novel written by theodore taylor it was published in 1969. Award winning young readers novel set in the caribbean sea during world war two.