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Description

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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Memorable Quotes

  • “The village of Ghalas-at lay east of the hills on a small mesa, near Coral Cove and a good spring. About a half league to the north is another spring and it was there that the Aleuts put up their tents which were made of skins and were so low to the earth that the men had to crawl into them on their stomachs. At dusk we could see the glow of their fires.”
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First Sentence

I REMEMBER the day the Aleut ship came to our island.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Scott O'Dell (Author)
 

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