O'Dell, Scott

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Alexandra

1984
While helping her crippled grandfather by diving for sponges from the family boat after the death of her diver father, Alexandra discovers that someone is using their sponges as a hiding-place for smuggled cocaine.

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS

2007
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 finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.

La isla de los delfines azules

1996
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast.

Zia

1995
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins

The dark canoe

A sixteen-year-old boy sails from nineteenth-century Nantucket to a remote California bay with his two older brothers and finds himself in mysterious circumstances involving the death of one brother and the strange obsession of the other.

The black pearl

In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.

Sing down the moon

The peaceful spring of Canyon de Chelly is shattered by the arrival of Spanish slavers and of white soldiers.

The black pearl

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