The Cay

Classic Literature. Juvenile Fiction. Juvenile Literature. HTML:For fans of Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins comes Theodore Taylor�s classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, The Cay.    Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Cura�ao. War has always been a game to him, and he�s eager to glimpse it firsthand�until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed.    When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother�s warning about black people: �They are different, and they live differently.�     But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip�s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy. �Mr. Taylor has provided an exciting story�The idea that all humanity would benefit from this special form of color blindness permeates the whole book�The result is a story with a high ethical purpose but no sermon.��New York Times Book Review   �A taut tightly compressed story of endurance and revelation�At once barbed and tender, tense and fragile�as Timothy would say, �outrageous good.���Kirkus Reviews   * �Fully realized setting�artful, unobtrusive use of dialect�the representation of a hauntingly deep love, the poignancy of which is rarely achieved in children�s literature.��School Library Journal, Starred   �Starkly dramatic, believable and compelling.��Saturday Review   �A tense and moving experience in reading.��Publishers Weekly   �Eloquently underscores the intrinsic brotherhood of man.��Booklist   "This is one of the best survival stories since Robinson Crusoe."�The Washington Star � A New York Times Best Book of the Year � A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year � A Horn Book Honor Book � An American Library Association Notable Book � A Publishers Weekly Children�s Book to Remember � A Child Study Association�s Pick of Children�s Books of the Year � Jane Addams Book Award � Lewis Carroll Shelf Award � Commonwealth Club of California: Literature Award � Southern California Council on Literature for Children and Young People Award � Woodward School Annual Book Award � Friends of the Library Award, University of California at Irvine.… (more)