shipwrecks

Captain Barnacle's animal crew sails off without him and is involved in a shipwreck.

Illustrates the math concepts of sorting, mapping, and grids through a mystery in which a group of monkeys, shipwrecked on a remote island, try to agree on how best to survive their ordeal, unaware they are being watched and judged by the monkeys that rule the island.

Illustrates the math concept of measurement through a mystery in which the castaway monkeys use all their skills to orient themselves in their search for the mysterious mountain that seems to appear and disappear from view, unaware of the dangers surrounding them as they move into the forbidden territory of the Tamarin kings, the secret rulers of the island.

Illustrates the math concepts of number place and value through a mystery in which a group of young castaways befriend the spider monkey that was stealing their food, after he promises to give them information about the hidden rulers of the island on which they are stranded.

Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island.