islands

Kile, almost thirteen, spends much of the summer yearning to explore a nearby island, striving to be a good brother, fishing with an elderly neighbor, and fuming at his parents over their separation that is forcing his mother to sell the family's cabin on a Michigan lake.

In 1936 sixteen-year-old Sophie lives in a crumbling castle in the island kingdom of Montmaray. The rumblings of war seem remote in Montmaray until two German officers land there. Then Sophie, her sister, her cousin, and her uncle must try to hold on to their home.

A charter plane crash on a deserted island forces a disparate group of teenagers to bury their petty jealousies and cooperate in an attempt to survive.

An abridged version of the story that relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.

Contains a retelling of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" from the point of view of Ariel, the mischievous air spirit.

Runaway slave, Rafe, is helped by thirteen-year-old Molly after the ship on which Rafe has stowed away runs aground near the Eastern Shore, and the pair share an adventure involving pirates, spies, and lost treasure.

Although teachers, counselors, and social workers try to help, it is a stray cat that finally enables eleven-year-old Jordan to stand up to the father who has beaten her and her brother for years.

Gracie, a poor eleven-year-old girl whose life begins to mysteriously change when Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to her island, is shocked to learn that the fallen emperor--the monster in the frightening stories she has heard all her life--is her benefactor.

Thirteen-year-old Elin can't imagine living anywhere but the island off the coast of Maine where her father is lightkeeper, until the night in 1941 when she awakes to the sound of German torpedoes while her parents are on the mainland.

When his father moves the family to Barbados, thirteen-year-old Jack learns that life is not always idyllic on an island paradise.