Describes islands, including how they form, plants and animals on islands, how people and weather change islands, islands in North America, and Surtsey Island.
Thirteen-year-old Magnolia and her dinosaur partner, Paddlefoot, must discover why the Polongo River has dried up before it causes a disaster for Waterfall City, on the magical island of Dinotopia.
As they get older, several sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.
When he goes to visit his grandparents and his cousin, Lennox, on the island of Tobago, Gregory misses home at first, but as he gets to know both the island ways and his relatives, Gregory begins to enjoy himself.
Spending summer vacation on a Maine island, Rebecca misses her best friend Emily until she meets Amanda, who invites Rebecca to be in the Fourth of July parade.
While helping his grandfather herd and shear his flock of sheep on a small island off the coast of Maine, twelveyear-old Gabe encounters a mysterious woman who may be the ghost of a drowned milkmaid.
Discusses, in text and photographs, the characteristics of islands, their location, and the plants, animals, and people that inhabit them. Includes suggestions for projects, further reading, and a glossary.
In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War is beginning to devastate her divided state.
