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Orphan Island
Record details
- ISBN: 0062698125 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780062698124 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 04 min.)) : digital.
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electronic resource
electronic - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Walden Pond Press, 2017.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
Content descriptions
Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kim Mai Guest. |
Summary, etc.: | In the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker's Pax and Lois Lowry's The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again. Today's Changing is no different. The boat arrives, taking away Jinny's best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. Jinny knows her responsibility now to teach Ess everything she needs to know about the island, to keep things as they've always been. But will she be ready for the inevitable day when the boat will come back and take her away forever from the only home she's known? |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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