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Castaway in paradise

the incredible adventures of true-life Robinson Crusoes
1993

Hide and seek

2012
In the remote mountains of Arizona where he lives with his mother, stepfather, and two sisters, fourteen-year-old Chase discovers two kidnapped boys and gets caught up in a dangerous adventure when he comes up with a plan to get them to safety.

Miracles on the water

the heroic survivors of a World War II U-Boat attack
2006
Chronicles the experiences of the men, women, and children who survived the sinking of the British liner "SS City of Benares", which was torpedoed by a German submarine on September 17, 1940.

Red's planet

When Red longed to live away from her annoying foster family, accidentally getting kidnapped by aliens and winding up marooned on a strange planet wasn't exactly what she had in mind. But that's exactly what happened. Now Red has to find a way to survive in this strange, new, and hostile place.

The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner

as related by himself
1976
An abridged version of the experiences of an Englishman stranded by shipwreck on a desert island where he survived for some thirty years.

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

a graphic novel
Presents a graphic novel version of Dafoe's eighteenth century travelogue about the adventures of a shipwrecked mariner.

Red's planet

2016
The story of headstrong 10-year-old foster child Red, who stows away on an alien spaceship and is marooned on a deserted planet with a menagerie of misfit aliens.

Isle of Swords

A young man awakens on an island, alone and seriously injured, with no memory, and as he searches for his identity he finds himself caught between two notorious pirates battling for a legendary treasure reportedly hidden by monks.

Babar on Paradise Island

2014
Babar, his family, and the Old Lady are shipwrecked on what seems to be a desert island, but soon they have made a new friend who calms their fears and introduces them to his pleasant way of life.

The tempest

sources and contexts, criticism, rewritings and appropriations
2004
Presents William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and includes excerpts from its sources, eighteen works of criticism by writers ranging from John Dryden to Barbara Fuchs, and seventeen works based on the play by such authors as Percy Shelley and Ted Hughes.

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