Title: Island of the Blue Dolphins
Author: Scott O’Dell
Illustrator: None
Publisher: Sandpiper
Year Published: 2010
Format: Paperback, Audio Book
Genre: Multicultural Story
Reading Level: Self-Reader
Reading Interest Level: Upper Elementary- Middle School
Topics: Survival, Solitude
Summary: This is the story of a 12-year old girl who lives alone on a Pacific island after she leaps from a rescue ship. Isolated on the island for eighteen years, Karana forages for food, builds weapons to fight predators, clothes herself in a cormorant feathered skirt, and finds strength and peace in her seclusion.
Extension Activity: Since this book deals so much with survival of the fittest, I would have the children write a short story that incorporates them being on their own, and what strategies and techniques they would use to stay alive and healthy.
