The Island

The Island

Gary Paulsen
Paulsen's young adult novel about a boy alone on an island in a northern lake. Stripped down and elemental — survival as a form of attention.
Ocean & Coast wilderness Fiction Great Plains
Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Published 1988
Related Wild Words
tombolo TOM-boh-loh fetch FETCH jaeger YAY-ger sabkha SUB-kah epontic eh-PON-tik atoll AT-all or ah-TOLL
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