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

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