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.
Examines the physical geography and history of the people, land, and culture of Australia and the Pacific Islands and provides information on early European explorers, the Australian Outback, and the exploitation of the islands' resources.
Photographs and brief text introduce the geography, history, government, people, and economy of Tahiti, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and other French islands of the Pacific.
Modo, the shape-shifting masked spy, and fellow spy Octavia learn that Modo's biological parents are still alive but when the Clockwork Guild find Modo's parents first, Octavia and Modo chase them across Europe and North America to the Island of Doom.
Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Pacific Islanders, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
Now chief of her unit in the Army Nurse Corps, Cherry Ames has the support of her Spencer Hospital friends as she strives to meet the challenge of organizing an evacuation hospital on a Pacific island.
Four children, having survived a shipwreck and a week with no food, arrive on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean, missing two of their friends, and find themselves in danger of being found by some very dangerous people.
